Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 34
There was but just room enough for them, and not the smallest space to spare.
Who acts: room · What happens: be, spare · To what, where: smallest space
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room), 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 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 room | cc |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 room | advmod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 was | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 space | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 space | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 space | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 space | det |
| 13 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 space | amod |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spare | mark |
| 16 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 space | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | room | the smallest space | there | for brothers = brother; enough property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | room not said here | the smallest space not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
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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