Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 59

Then he wandered away into one of the narrowest streets, where there was scarcely room for a loaded donkey to pass.

Who acts: boy, scarcely room · What happens: wander away, be, load, pass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, scarcely 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wandered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 wandered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 streets	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
9	narrowest	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 streets	amod
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 was	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	parataxis
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 room	amod
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 donkey	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 donkey	det
19	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 donkey	amod
20	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pass	mark
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 donkey	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander away	past	boy		then	into one of the narrowest streets; away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination
2	be	past	scarcely room for a loaded donkey	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	load	participle					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	pass	to-infinitive	scarcely room for a loaded donkey not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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