Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 86

Towards evening, he reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first.

Who acts: tongue, poor little cottage, cottage · What happens: reach, seem, fall, remain, stand, not decide · To what, where: poor little cottage

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 (tongue, poor little cottage, cottage), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cottage	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cottage	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cottage	amod
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cottage	acl:relcl
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seemed	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fall	mark
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ready	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remained	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 remained	cc
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 remained	advmod
18	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
19	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 remained	xcomp
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 decide	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 decide	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 decide	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 decide	advmod
24	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 standing	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 decide	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fall	mark
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 decide	advcl
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 fall	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	tongue	a poor little cottage	evening		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
2	seem	past	a poor little cottage			ready property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	fall	to-infinitive	a poor little cottage not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remain	past	tongue not said here				tree rules
5	stand	gerund	tongue not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not decide	could	cottage			on which side	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on side=Topic
7	fall	to-infinitive	cottage not said here			first 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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