Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 41

They could not find room in the hut, nor endure the smoke that rolled along the ceiling till it found its way out at the low door; so they pitched their tents on a small space outside our dwelling.

Who acts: Franks, smoke, hut · What happens: not find, endure, roll, find, pitch · To what, where: room, hut, smoke, ceiling, way, tents

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Franks, smoke, hut), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 endure	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 endure	cc
11	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 smoke	det
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 endure	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 rolled	nsubj
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 smoke	acl:relcl
16	along	along	ADP	_	18 ceiling	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ceiling	det
18	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolled	obl
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 found	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rolled	advcl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 way	nmod:poss
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 way	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
27	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 door	amod
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 out	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 pitched	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 pitched	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pitched	nsubj
32	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tents	nmod:poss
34	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pitched	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 space	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 space	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 space	amod
38	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pitched	obl
39	outside	outside	ADP	_	41 dwelling	case
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 dwelling	nmod:poss
41	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 space	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not find	could	Franks = frank	room	the hut	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic
2	endure	infinitive	Franks = frank not said here	the smoke		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smoke=Circumstance
3	roll	past	the smoke		the ceiling	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ceiling=Trajectory
4	find	past	hut	hut's way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	pitch	past	Franks = frank	Franks's tents	a small space outside our dwelling	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme on space=Destination

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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