Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 88
There was therefore a narrow opening near the bottom large enough for him to slip through, which he did very quietly, and got a shelter for the night.
Who acts: narrow bottom, bottom · What happens: be, open, slip through, do, get · To what, where: shelter
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 (narrow bottom, bottom), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bottom | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bottom | amod |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bottom | nsubj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 bottom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bottom | det |
| 9 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bottom | amod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 slip | mark |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slip | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slip | mark |
| 15 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 large | advcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADV | _ | 15 slip | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 did | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slip | parataxis |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 quietly | advmod |
| 22 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 shelter | det |
| 27 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a narrow bottom | there | therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | slip through | to-infinitive | bottom | through property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | do | past | bottom | quietly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get | past | a shelter | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shelter=Stimulus |
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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