Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 11

I wish to goodness my head was through," said he, and instantly, though it was so thick and large, it slipped through quite easily.

Who acts: I, head, rain · What happens: wish, be, say, slip through · To what, where: goodness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, head, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 goodness	mark
4	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	obj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 through	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 through	cop
8	through	through	ADV	_	2 wish	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thick	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thick	cc
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	21 thick	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thick	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 thick	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thick	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thick	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 thick	advmod
21	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 large	cc
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thick	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slipped	nsubj
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thick	conj
27	through	through	ADV	_	26 slipped	advmod
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 easily	advmod
29	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 slipped	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I	goodness		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot goodness=Theme
2	is	past	my head		through property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	rain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	past	head		instantly, thick property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		head not said here			tree rules
6	slip through in a quote	past	head		easily, through property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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