Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 13

I am too fat," he said; "I thought my head would be the worst, but I cannot get my body through, that is certain."

Who acts: I, body, head, that · What happens: be, say, think, not get · To what, where: body · 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, body, head, that), 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	4 fat	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fat	advmod
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 worst	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 worst	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 worst	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 worst	det
18	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thought	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 get	advmod
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fat	parataxis
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 body	nmod:poss
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	through	through	ADV	_	24 get	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 certain	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 certain	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 certain	cop
31	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 get	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fat	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		fat property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	body			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	my head		bad property	tree rules
5	not get	can	I	my body	through property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus
6	is	present	that		certain property	tree rules

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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