Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 189

I escaped fortunately as far as the threshold of the door; but there I fell down and remained: I could go no farther.

Who acts: I · What happens: escape, fall down, remain, go

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 escaped	nsubj
2	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 escaped	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 threshold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 threshold	det
8	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 far	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threshold	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 fell	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 escaped	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 remained	cc
19	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remained	ccomp
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 farther	advmod
25	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 go	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	escape	past	I		far property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall down	past	I	there	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remain	past	I not said here			tree rules
4	go	could	I		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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