The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 47

In a large town, where there were so many people and houses that there was not room enough for everybody to have gardens, lived two poor children.

Who acts: many people · What happens: not be, have, live · To what, where: room, large town, gardens, two poor children

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 room	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 were	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 were	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 room	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 room	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 houses	cc
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 was	nsubj
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 room	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 room	advmod
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 room	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 everybody	case
21	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 room	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 everybody	acl
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lived	punct
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 room	parataxis
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 children	nummod
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 children	amod
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lived	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 room	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	many people and houses	room	a large town	for everybody; enough property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	many people and houses not said here	gardens			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
3	live	past		two poor children			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme child=Location

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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