Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 20

He had dressed himself in white clothes, like a miller's man, and was climbing the path to the miller's house, but he had never been taught to climb, and therefore slipped, and nearly went in head-foremost.

Who acts: catastrophe · What happens: dress, climb, not teach, slip, go · To what, where: catastrophe, white clothes, path, head foremost

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (catastrophe), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 clothes	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 dressed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 miller	det
11	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 miller	case
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 climbing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 climbing	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 climbing	aux
17	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dressed	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 path	det
19	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbing	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 miller	det
22	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 miller	case
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taught	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 taught	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 taught	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taught	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 taught	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 taught	aux:pass
31	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dressed	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 climb	mark
33	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 taught	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 slipped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 slipped	cc
36	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	37 slipped	advmod
37	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
40	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	41 went	advmod
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 slipped	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 foremost	case
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 foremost	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 head	punct
45	foremost	foremost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 went	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · perfect	catastrophe	catastrophe	white clothes	like a miller's man	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	climb	past · progressive	catastrophe not said here	the path		to the miller's house result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient path=Extent to house=Result
3	not teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		catastrophe			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	climb	to-infinitive	catastrophe not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slip	past				therefore property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	go	past			head foremost	nearly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in foremost=Location

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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