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title: I got out of bed, and reached the window; I could not crawl any fart… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I got out of bed, and reached the window; I could not crawl any farther from weakness and exhaustion; but I managed to open the window. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 180

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I got out of bed, and reached the window; I could not crawl any farther from weakness and exhaustion; but I managed to open the window.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get out, reach, not crawl, manage, open · **To what, where:** bed, window, weakness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:177:180
# text = I got out of bed, and reached the window; I could not crawl any farther from weakness and exhaustion; but I managed to open the window.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | past | I | bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | I *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **crawl** | could | I |  |  | weakness and exhaustion |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from weakness=Trajectory |
| 4 | **manage** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **open** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |

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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.

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**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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