Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 10

Now came the question whether he could squeeze through the palings; he certainly had never tried, so he stood looking at them. "

Who acts: rain · What happens: come, squeeze, not try, stand, look · To what, where: question, palings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 squeeze	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squeeze	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 squeeze	aux
8	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 question	acl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 palings	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palings	det
11	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 squeeze	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tried	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tried	nsubj
14	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 tried	advmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tried	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 tried	advmod
17	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 stood	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
22	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 stood	xcomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looking	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		the question		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location question=Theme
2	squeeze	could	rain	the question not said here	the palings			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent question=Theme through paling=Trajectory
3	not try	past · perfect	rain				certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	stand	past	rain					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	look	gerund	rain not said here				at goloshes = golosh	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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