Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 92

Like a stricken, fainting man, he tottered down the staircase and out into the street.

Who acts: face · What happens: faint, totter · To what, where: staircase

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	6 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
3	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fainting	punct
5	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tottered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tottered	nsubj
9	tottered	totter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 staircase	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 staircase	det
12	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tottered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 street	cc
14	out	out	ADV	_	17 street	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 street	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staircase	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tottered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	gerund							vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	totter	past	face			the staircase and the street		like a stricken fainting man	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down staircase=Trajectory

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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