The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 73

But the barn was too low, there was no room to swing the flail, and the floors were too small.

Who acts: barn, room, floors · What happens: be, swing · To what, where: flail

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barn, room, floors), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 low	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barn	det
3	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 low	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 low	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 low	advmod
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 low	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 swing	mark
13	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 room	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flail	det
15	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 small	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 small	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floors	det
19	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 small	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 small	cop
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 small	advmod
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 low	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 low	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the barn			low property	tree rules
2	be	past	no room		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swing	to-infinitive	no room not said here	the flail			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flail=Theme
4	is	past	the floors			small property	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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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