Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 85

It was small, certainly, but still it was something, and Martin had nothing of the kind.

Who acts: bed, Martin · What happens: be, have · To what, where: something, nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, Martin), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 certainly	punct
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 small	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 something	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 something	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 something	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 something	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 something	cop
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 small	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 something	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 kind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bed			certainly, small property	tree rules
2	is a	past	bed	something	still		tree rules
3	have	past	Martin	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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