Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 151

The door stood open; the poor creature could just manage to slip out among the bushes, and lie down quite exhausted in the newly fallen snow.

Who acts: door, poor creature · What happens: stand, manage, slip out, lie down, exhaust, fall · To what, where: fallen snow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, poor creature), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 manage	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 manage	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 manage	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 manage	advmod
11	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 slip	mark
13	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 manage	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 slip	compound:prt
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 bushes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bushes	det
17	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 slip	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lie	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lie	cc
20	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 manage	conj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 lie	advmod
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 exhausted	advmod
23	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 lie	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 snow	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snow	det
26	newly	newly	ADV	_	27 fallen	advmod
27	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 snow	amod
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exhausted	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the door		open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	manage	could	the poor creature			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	slip out	to-infinitive	the poor creature not said here		among the bushes	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lie down	infinitive	the poor creature not said here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	exhaust	participle	the poor creature not said here	the fallen snow		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	fall	participle			newly property	vn occur-48.3 «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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