Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 52

The saloons were gleaming with lustres--privy councillors and excellencies were walking about barefooted, and wore gold keys; it was enough to make any one feel uncomfortable.

Who acts: saloons, guard, one · What happens: gleam, walk, wear, be, make, feel · To what, where: gold keys, one

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 (saloons, guard, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saloons	det
2	saloons	saloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gleaming	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gleaming	aux
4	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lustres	case
6	lustres	lustre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gleaming	obl
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 councillors	punct
8	privy	privy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 councillors	amod
9	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lustres	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 excellencies	cc
11	excellencies	excellency	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lustres	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	aux
13	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gleaming	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 barefooted	case
15	barefooted	barefooted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 walking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wore	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wore	cc
18	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gleaming	parataxis
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keys	compound
20	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wore	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 enough	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 enough	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 enough	cop
24	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wore	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 enough	advcl
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
30	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feel	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gleaming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gleam	past · progressive	the saloons		with lustres and privy councillors and excellencies	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lustre=Theme
2	walk	past · progressive	the saloons not said here		about barefooted	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about barefooted=Trajectory
3	wear	past		gold keys		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent key=Theme
4	is	past	guard		enough property	tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	guard not said here	any one		tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	any one not said here		uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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