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title: He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattere… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattered trousers. Who acts: catastrophe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 21

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He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattered trousers.

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**Who acts:** catastrophe · **What happens:** manage, scramble out, bespatter · **To what, where:** trousers

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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.

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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:pg27200:62:21
# text = He managed, however, to scramble out with wet sleeves and bespattered trousers.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bespattered	bespatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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