Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 180
I got out of bed, and reached the window; I could not crawl any farther from weakness and exhaustion; but I managed to open the window.
Who acts: I · What happens: get out, reach, not crawl, manage, open · To what, where: bed, window, weakness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reached | cc |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 crawl | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 crawl | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 crawl | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 crawl | advmod |
| 15 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | parataxis |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 farther | det |
| 17 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 crawl | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 weakness | case |
| 19 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crawl | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 exhaustion | cc |
| 21 | exhaustion | exhaustion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 weakness | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 managed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 managed | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 managed | nsubj |
| 25 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 open | mark |
| 27 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 managed | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 window | det |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 open | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | I | bed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | I not said here | the window | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not crawl | could | I | weakness and exhaustion | far property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from weakness=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | manage | past | I | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | open | to-infinitive | I not said here | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |
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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