Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 1

In a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for everybody to have even a little garden, therefore they are obliged to be satisfied with a few flowers in flower-pots.

Who acts: room, everybody · What happens: be, have, oblige · To what, where: large town, little garden, people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, everybody), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 houses	case
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 people	cc
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 houses	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 town	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 room	advmod
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 have	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 room	acl
20	even	even	ADV	_	23 garden	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 garden	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 garden	amod
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 obliged	punct
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	28 obliged	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 obliged	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 obliged	aux:pass
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 have	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 satisfied	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 satisfied	cop
31	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 obliged	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 flowers	det
34	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 flowers	amod
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 satisfied	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 pots	case
37	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pots	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 flower	punct
39	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flowers	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	room		a large town; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2	have	to-infinitive	everybody	a little garden			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
3	oblige	present · passive		people		therefore property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive				with a few flowers in flower pots; satisfied property	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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