Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 45

There was so much that the pieces of furniture stood in each other's way to get a sight of the little boy.

Who acts: much, pieces · What happens: be, stand, get, sight · To what, where: way, sight, little boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, pieces), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stood	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 furniture	case
9	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pieces	nmod
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 other	case
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stood	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sight	det
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 boy	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sight	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	much		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the pieces of furniture		each other's way	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
3	get	to-infinitive	the pieces of furniture not said here	a sight of the little boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
4	sight			the little boy		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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