Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 38

There might have been mice on board, but only one man and a half, the skipper and the laborer's boy.

What happens: have, be · To what, where: one man, mice, board

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	3 have	expl
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mice	cop
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 board	case
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mice	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 man	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 man	nummod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 half	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 half	det
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 man	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 skipper	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skipper	det
18	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 boy	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 laborer	det
21	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 laborer	case
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	might		one man and a half and the skipper and the laborer's boy		there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		mice		board			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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