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title: And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just esca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just escaped being crushed by managing to scramble into the nettles which grew high by the well's brink. Who acts: Toad, nettles. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 31

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And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just escaped being crushed by managing to scramble into the nettles which grew high by the well's brink.

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**Who acts:** Toad, nettles · **What happens:** make, escape, crush, manage, scramble, grow · **To what, where:** kick, nettles

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, nettles), 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:pg27200:194:31
# text = And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just escaped being crushed by managing to scramble into the nettles which grew high by the well's brink.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	managing	manage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Toad | a kick |  |  |  | with Toad's wooden shoe; at the toad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Product |
| 2 | **escape** | past | the toad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crush** | gerund · passive | the toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 4 | **manage** | gerund | the toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **scramble** | to-infinitive | the toad *not said here* |  |  | the nettles |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into nettle=Destination |
| 6 | **grow** | past | the nettles |  |  |  |  | by the well's brink; high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by brink=Location |

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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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