Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 108

First they went under the floor, and then passed through a long passage, which was scarcely high enough to allow the thimble to drive under, and the whole passage was lit up with the phosphorescent light of rotten wood.

Who acts: trouble, long passage · What happens: go, pass, be, allow, drive, lit up · To what, where: floor, long passage, thimble, whole passage, rotten wood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, long passage), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 passed	advmod
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 passage	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 passage	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 passage	amod
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 high	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 high	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 high	cop
18	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	19 high	advmod
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 passage	amod
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 high	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 allow	mark
22	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 high	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thimble	det
24	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 allow	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 drive	mark
26	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thimble	acl
27	under	under	ADP	_	26 drive	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lit	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lit	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 passage	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 passage	amod
32	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lit	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lit	aux:pass
34	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 lit	compound:prt
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 light	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 light	det
38	phosphorescent	phosphorescent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 light	amod
39	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lit	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 wood	case
41	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wood	amod
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 light	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	trouble		the floor		first property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under floor=Location
2	pass	past	trouble not said here		a long passage	then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through passage=Location
3	is	past	a long passage				enough, high, scarcely property	tree rules
4	allow	to-infinitive	a long passage not said here	the thimble				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Beneficiary
5	drive	to-infinitive	a long passage not said here	the thimble not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	lit up	past · passive		the whole passage			with the phosphorescent light of rotten wood	tree rules
7	light			rotten wood				nom light «phenomenon 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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