Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 54

It was very heavy and indigestible, but I managed to nibble it up at last.

Who acts: opportunity, I · What happens: be, manage, nibble up · To what, where: opportunity, last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opportunity, I), 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:pg27200:12424): 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 indigestible	cc
6	indigestible	indigestible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heavy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 managed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 managed	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 managed	nsubj
10	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 nibble	mark
12	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 managed	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nibble	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 nibble	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nibble	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	opportunity			heavy property	tree rules
2	be		opportunity not said here				tree rules
3	manage	past	I				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	nibble up	to-infinitive	I not said here	opportunity	last		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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