Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 157

Sometimes it was so narrow that they had to creep on their hands and knees, while at other times it was lofty and wide, like the free air.

Who acts: cavern, Winds · What happens: be, have, creep · To what, where: hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavern, Winds), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 narrow	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 narrow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrow	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 narrow	advmod
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrow	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 creep	mark
10	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 creep	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knees	cc
15	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hands	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lofty	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 lofty	mark
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 times	case
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lofty	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lofty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lofty	cop
23	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creep	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wide	cc
25	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lofty	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 air	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
29	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 air	amod
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lofty	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 narrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cavern			narrow, sometimes property	tree rules
2	have	past	Winds = wind				tree rules
3	creep	to-infinitive	Winds = wind not said here	Winds's hands and knees			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
4	is	past	cavern		time	like the free air; lofty property	tree rules
5	be		cavern not said here				tree rules

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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