Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 2

There was a great distance between the two families--the whole of the ground floor, and the difference in rank; but they lived in the same house, and both had a view of the street, and of the courtyard.

Who acts: great distance, distance, both · What happens: be, live, have, view · To what, where: same house, view, street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, 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 (great distance, distance, both), 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 distance	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 distance	amod
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	between	between	ADP	_	9 families	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 families	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 families	nummod
9	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 distance	nmod
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 whole	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whole	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 families	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 floor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floor	compound
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whole	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 difference	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 difference	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 difference	det
20	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distance	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 rank	case
22	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 difference	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lived	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lived	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
33	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lived	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 view	det
36	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 street	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 street	det
39	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 view	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 courtyard	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 courtyard	cc
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 courtyard	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 courtyard	det
44	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great distance between the two families and the difference in rank		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	distance		the same house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
3	have	past	both	a view of the street		of the courtyard	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient
4	view			the street			nom view «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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