Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 31

And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just escaped being crushed by managing to scramble into the nettles which grew high by the well's brink.

Who acts: Toad, nettles · What happens: make, escape, crush, manage, scramble, grow · To what, where: kick, nettles

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, nettles), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kick	det
5	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 shoe	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoe	nmod:poss
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoe	amod
9	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 toad	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toad	det
12	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 escaped	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 escaped	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 escaped	advmod
16	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 toad	acl:relcl
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 crushed	aux:pass
18	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 escaped	xcomp
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 managing	mark
20	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 crushed	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 scramble	mark
22	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 managing	xcomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 nettles	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nettles	det
25	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 scramble	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 grew	nsubj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nettles	acl:relcl
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grew	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 brink	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 well	det
31	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brink	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 well	case
33	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Toad	a kick		with Toad's wooden shoe; at the toad	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Product
2	escape	past	the toad				tree rules
3	crush	gerund · passive	the toad not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
4	manage	gerund	the toad not said here				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	scramble	to-infinitive	the toad not said here		the nettles		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into nettle=Destination
6	grow	past	the nettles			by the well's brink; high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by brink=Location

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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