Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 183

He could scarcely reach the water jug that he had placed by his bed, and the last drop was gone.

Who acts: weather, last drop · What happens: reach, place, be · To what, where: water jug

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, last drop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7950): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jug	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jug	compound
7	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 placed	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 placed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	aux
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 jug	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 drop	det
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drop	amod
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reach	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	could	weather	the water jug	scarcely property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent jug=Theme
2	place	past · perfect	weather	the water jug	by weather's bed	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme by bed=Destination
3	is	past	the last drop		gone property	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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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