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title: Still, wet and splashed with mud, he contrived to reach Babette's wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 22

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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.

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

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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, light), 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:pg27200:62:22
# text = 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.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	splashed	splash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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