Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 5

But his halter was not long enough to let him reach it and eat it.

Who acts: halter · What happens: be, reach, eat · To what, where: halter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (halter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 halter	nmod:poss
3	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 let	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 enough	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reach	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eat	cc
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 reach	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ass's halter		enough, let property	tree rules
2	reach	infinitive	Ass's halter not said here	halter		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	eat	infinitive	Ass's halter not said here	halter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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