Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 23

“Would to Heaven I had got my head through!” said he, involuntarily; and instantly through it slipped, easily and without pain, notwithstanding it was pretty large and thick.

Who acts: man, head · What happens: get, say, slip, notwithstand, be · To what, where: head, Heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

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, head), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Heaven	case
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
10	through	through	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 involuntarily	punct
16	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 slipped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 slipped	cc
19	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	22 slipped	advmod
20	through	through	SCONJ	_	22 slipped	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 slipped	nsubj
22	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 easily	punct
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 slipped	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pain	cc
26	without	without	ADP	_	27 pain	case
27	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 easily	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 notwithstanding	punct
29	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 slipped	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 large	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 large	cop
32	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	33 large	advmod
33	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 notwithstanding	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 thick	cc
35	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 large	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	would · perfect	man	my head	Heaven	through property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	man			involuntarily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slip	past	head			easily, instantly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	notwithstand	gerund	head not said here				tree rules
5	is	past	head			large, pretty property	tree rules
6	be		head not said here				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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