Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 19

"Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more.

Who acts: angel · What happens: live, afflict, manage, walk · To what, where: poor sick boy, angel, childhood, crutches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Down	punct
2	Down	down	ADV	_	13 lived	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 lane	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lane	det
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lane	amod
6	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Down	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cellar	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cellar	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cellar	det
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cellar	amod
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lane	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boy	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boy	amod
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boy	amod
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 afflicted	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 afflicted	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afflicted	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 afflicted	aux:pass
22	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lived	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 childhood	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 childhood	nmod:poss
25	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 afflicted	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 manage	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 manage	cc
28	even	even	ADV	_	32 days	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 days	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 days	nmod:poss
31	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 days	amod
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 manage	obl:unmarked
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 manage	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 manage	aux
35	just	just	ADV	_	36 manage	advmod
36	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lived	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 walk	mark
38	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 manage	xcomp
39	up	up	ADV	_	38 walk	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 room	cc
41	down	down	ADP	_	43 room	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 room	det
43	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 up	conj
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 crutches	case
45	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 walk	obl
46	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 walk	advmod
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 twice	cc
48	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	46 once	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 more	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 more	cc
51	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 more	det
52	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 lived	parataxis
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	past		a poor sick boy			down property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme boy=Location
2	afflict in a quote	past · perfect · passive		angel	angel's childhood			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	manage in a quote	could	angel			day		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	walk in a quote	to-infinitive	angel not said here		crutches		once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crutch=Trajectory

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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