Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 84
How should there be room in a little nut like this for the best thing of all?
What happens: be · To what, where: room, little nut
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 room | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 room | aux |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 room | cop |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 nut | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nut | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nut | amod |
| 9 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 nut | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 thing | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | room | a little nut like this | for the best thing of all | 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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