Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 29

The mountain path was narrow here; indeed it was scarcely a path at all, only a kind of shelf, close to the yawning abyss.

Who acts: mountain path, path · What happens: be, yawn · To what, where: path, all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain path, path), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 path	det
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 path	compound
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 narrow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 narrow	cop
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 narrow	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 path	punct
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 path	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 path	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 path	cop
11	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	13 path	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 path	det
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 narrow	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 path	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kind	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 kind	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 path	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 shelf	case
21	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 close	punct
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kind	amod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 abyss	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 abyss	det
26	yawning	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 abyss	amod
27	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 close	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 narrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mountain path		here	narrow property	tree rules
2	is a	past	path	a path	all	indeed, scarcely property	tree rules
3	yawn	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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