Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 21
He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattered trousers.
Who acts: catastrophe · What happens: manage, scramble out, bespatter · To what, where: trousers
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 | 2 managed | nsubj |
| 2 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 managed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scramble | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 scramble | mark |
| 7 | scramble | scramble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 managed | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 scramble | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sleeves | case |
| 10 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sleeves | amod |
| 11 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scramble | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bespattered | cc |
| 13 | bespattered | bespatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 managed | conj |
| 14 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bespattered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | catastrophe | however property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | scramble out | to-infinitive | catastrophe not said here | with wet sleeves | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sleeve=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | bespatter | past | catastrophe not said here | trousers | 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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