Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 13

But suddenly it occurred to him that he might stoop down under the table, and then creep unobserved out of the door.

Who acts: world, man · What happens: occur, stoop down, unobserv · To what, where: man, table, door

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 occurred	cc
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 occurred	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 occurred	nsubj
4	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 occurred	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stoop	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stoop	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stoop	aux
10	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 occurred	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 stoop	compound:prt
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stoop	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unobserved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 unobserved	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 unobserved	advmod
18	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 unobserved	aux:pass
19	unobserved	unobserv	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 occurred	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 door	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 unobserved	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	world	man			suddenly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stoop down	might	man		the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location
3	unobserv	infinitive · passive	world not said here		the door	then		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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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