The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 65

The girls came up just at the right moment, held him firm, and did all they could to disentangle his beard from the line; but in vain, beard and line were in a hopeless muddle.

Who acts: girls, vain beard · What happens: come up, hold, do, disentangle, be · To what, where: fish, beard, hopeless muddle

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, vain beard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 moment	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 moment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moment	amod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	obj
13	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 held	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 disentangle	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 disentangle	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 disentangle	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 disentangle	mark
21	disentangle	disentangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 did	ccomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beard	nmod:poss
23	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disentangle	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 line	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 line	det
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disentangle	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 muddle	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 muddle	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 vain	case
30	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beard	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 vain	punct
32	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 muddle	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 line	cc
34	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beard	conj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 muddle	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 muddle	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 muddle	det
38	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 muddle	amod
39	muddle	muddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the girls			moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past	the girls not said here	fish			firm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	do	past						tree rules
4	disentangle	could	girls = girl	fish's beard			from the line	vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent beard=Patient from line=Co-Patient
5	is	past	vain beard and line		a hopeless muddle			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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