Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 21

The question now was, if he could squeeze himself through the grating, for he had never tried before.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, squeeze, not try · To what, where: question, man, grating

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 question	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squeeze	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 squeeze	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 squeeze	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 squeeze	aux
9	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 question	appos
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 squeeze	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 grating	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grating	det
13	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squeeze	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tried	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 tried	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tried	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tried	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 tried	advmod
19	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 squeeze	conj
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 tried	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the question			tree rules
2	squeeze a condition, not said to happen	could	man	man	the grating		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme through grating=Trajectory
3	not try	past · perfect	man			before property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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