Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 36

People came in crowds; there was a crush and a hurry, but no one was successful either on the first or second day.

Who acts: People, crush, one · What happens: come, be · To what, where: crowds

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (People, crush, one), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 crowds	case
4	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crush	det
9	crush	crush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hurry	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hurry	det
12	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crush	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 successful	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 successful	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 successful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 successful	cop
18	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	conj
19	either	either	CCONJ	_	25 day	cc:preconj
20	on	on	ADP	_	25 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 day	amod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 second	cc
24	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 first	conj
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 successful	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	People	crowds			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crowd=Location
2	be	past	a crush and a hurry	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	no one		day	successful 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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