The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 41

There was not much more room, but by closing up a bit they managed....

Who acts: more room, others · What happens: be, close up, manage · To what, where: bit

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more room, others), 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	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 room	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 managed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 managed	cc
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 closing	mark
10	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 managed	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 closing	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closing	obl:unmarked
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 managed	nsubj
15	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
16	....	....	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	more room		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	close up	gerund	others = other not said here	a bit		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	manage	past	others = other			vn succeed-74-1-1 «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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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