Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 24

In a large town, where there are so many houses, and so many people, that there is no roof left for everybody to have a little garden; and where, on this account, most persons are obliged to content themselves with flowers in pots; there lived two little children, who had a garden somewhat larger than a flower-pot.

Who acts: roof · What happens: be, leave, have, oblige, content, live · To what, where: many people, large town, roof, little garden, account, persons

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 people	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 town	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 are	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 people	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 houses	amod
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 are	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 people	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 is	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 people	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 roof	det
22	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 roof	acl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 everybody	case
25	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 left	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 have	mark
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 left	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 garden	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 garden	amod
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 where	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 where	cc
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 people	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 account	punct
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 account	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 account	det
37	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 obliged	nsubj:pass
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 account	punct
39	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 persons	amod
40	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 obliged	nsubj:pass
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 obliged	aux:pass
42	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 where	advcl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 content	mark
44	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 obliged	xcomp
45	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 content	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 flowers	case
47	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 content	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 pots	case
49	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 content	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 lived	punct
51	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	52 lived	expl
52	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 obliged	conj
53	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 children	nummod
54	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 children	amod
55	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lived	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 had	punct
57	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 lived	conj
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 garden	det
60	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 had	obj
61	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	62 larger	advmod
62	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	58 had	xcomp
63	than	than	ADP	_	67 pot	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 pot	det
65	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 pot	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 flower	punct
67	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 larger	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		many people	a large town		tree rules
2	be	present	no roof		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle		no roof not said here		for everybody	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for everybody=Recipient
4	have	to-infinitive		a little garden			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
5	oblige	present · passive		this account			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	content	to-infinitive		persons = person	pots	with flowers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
7	live	past		two little children	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme child=Location
8	have	past		a garden		large property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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