Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 22

Still, wet and splashed with mud, he contrived to reach Babette's window, to which he had been guided by the light that shone from it.

Who acts: catastrophe, light · What happens: splash, contrive, reach, guide, shine · To what, where: window, catastrophe, light

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, light), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 wet	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wet	punct
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 splashed	cc
5	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wet	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 mud	case
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 splashed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 contrived	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 contrived	nsubj
10	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wet	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reach	mark
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 contrived	xcomp
13	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 window	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Babette	case
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 guided	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 guided	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 guided	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 guided	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 guided	aux:pass
22	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 reach	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 light	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 light	det
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guided	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 shone	nsubj
27	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 light	acl:relcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	splash	participle				with mud	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mud=Theme
2	contrive	past	catastrophe				tree rules
3	reach	to-infinitive	catastrophe not said here	Babette's window			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme
4	guide	past · perfect · passive	the light	catastrophe			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Destination
5	shine	past	the light		light		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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