Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 6

The space between is dark and narrow, but still more dismal must it be behind the iron gratings in the wall which cover the narrow loopholes or windows, for in these dungeons the most depraved of the criminals are confined.

Who acts: space, iron gratings · What happens: be, cover, deprave, confine · To what, where: iron gratings, narrow loopholes, dungeons

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (space, iron gratings), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 space	det
2	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	2 space	case
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 narrow	cc
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dark	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dismal	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 dismal	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 dismal	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 dismal	advmod
12	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 confined	advcl
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 confined	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gratings	nsubj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 gratings	cop
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 gratings	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gratings	det
18	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gratings	amod
19	gratings	grating	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 confined	nsubj:pass
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gratings	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 cover	nsubj
24	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gratings	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 loopholes	det
26	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 loopholes	amod
27	loopholes	loophole	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cover	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 windows	cc
29	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 loopholes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dungeons	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 dungeons	case
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 dungeons	case
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 dungeons	det
34	dungeons	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 loopholes	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 depraved	det
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 depraved	advmod
37	depraved	deprave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 dungeons	acl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 criminals	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 criminals	det
40	criminals	criminal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 depraved	obl
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 confined	aux:pass
42	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dark	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the space			dark property	tree rules
2	be		the space not said here				tree rules
3	is	infinitive	space		the iron gratings	in the wall	tree rules
4	cover	present	the iron gratings	the narrow loopholes or windows and this dungeons			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loophole=Destination
5	deprave	participle		this dungeons not said here		of the criminals	tree rules
6	confine	must · passive		the iron gratings			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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