Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 34

To reach up to the bell was what he did not like; to cry aloud for help would have availed him little; besides, how ashamed would he have been to be found caught in a trap, like an outwitted fox!

Who acts: creature · What happens: reach up, not be, cry, avail, have, find · To what, where: creature, trap · 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 (creature), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 reach	mark
2	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cry	advcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 reach	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reach	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	cop
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 like	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bell	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 cry	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cry	mark
15	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	15 cry	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 help	case
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 availed	obl
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 availed	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 availed	aux
21	availed	avail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 cry	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 availed	obj
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 availed	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 besides	punct
25	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cry	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ashamed	punct
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 ashamed	advmod
28	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 besides	acl:relcl
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ashamed	ccomp
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 found	aux:pass
33	to	to	PART	_	35 found	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 found	aux:pass
35	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 have	conj
36	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 found	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 trap	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 trap	det
39	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 caught	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 fox	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	44 fox	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 fox	det
43	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 fox	amod
44	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 caught	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach up	to-infinitive				to the bell	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past · do-support	creature			like property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive				aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	avail	would · perfect		creature		for help; little property	tree rules
5	have	would	creature				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	find	participle · passive	creature not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme
7	catch	participle	creature not said here		a trap	like a outwitted fox	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	outwit	participle					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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