Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 42

I was once engaged to a swallow; but I fell in here from the gutter under the roof, and I have lain here more than five years, and have been thoroughly drenched.

Who acts: I · What happens: engage, fall in, lie, drench · To what, where: I, gutter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. 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	4 engaged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 engaged	aux:pass
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 engaged	advmod
4	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 swallow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 swallow	det
7	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 engaged	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 engaged	conj
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fell	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 gutter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gutter	det
16	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 roof	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roof	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lain	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lain	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 lain	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lain	aux
24	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 engaged	conj
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lain	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	28 five	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	26 more	fixed
28	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lain	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drenched	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 drenched	cc
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 drenched	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 drenched	aux:pass
34	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	35 drenched	advmod
35	drenched	drench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 engaged	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		I			to a swallow; once property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	fall in	past	I		the gutter; here		under the roof	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under roof=Location
3	lie	present · perfect	I		here	year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drench	present · perfect · passive					thoroughly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»

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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