Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 7

One drop out of me is enough for half a page of paper, and what cannot half a page contain?

Who acts: One drop · What happens: be, not half, contain, page · To what, where: paper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One drop), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 drop	nummod
2	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enough	nsubj
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 me	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 drop	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 page	case
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 page	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 page	det
11	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enough	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 paper	case
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 page	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 half	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 half	obj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 half	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 half	advmod
19	half	half	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 page	det
21	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 contain	compound
22	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 half	advcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	One drop out me		for half page of paper; enough property	tree rules
2	not half	can				tree rules
3	contain	infinitive				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	page			paper		nom page «communication 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/7/