The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 77

The tender-hearted children seized hold of the little man, and struggled so long with the bird that at last he let go his prey.

Who acts: hearted children, man, bird · What happens: seize, struggle, let, go, hold · To what, where: hold, bird, last, prey, little man

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 (hearted children, man, bird), 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	5 children	det
2	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearted	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tender	punct
4	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seized	nsubj
6	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 struggled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 struggled	cc
14	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seized	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 struggled	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struggled	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 let	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 let	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 let	nsubj
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bird	acl:relcl
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 prey	nmod:poss
27	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the hearted children	hold of the little man			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	struggle	past	the hearted children not said here			with the bird; long property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bird=Co-Agent
3	let	past	man	the bird	last		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the bird not said here	man's prey			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prey=Theme
5	hold			the little man			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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