Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 70

What weather it was, and what a state the street was in!'

Who acts: weather · What happens: state

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 weather	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 state	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 state	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 state	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 state	det
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weather	appos
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 street	det
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 in	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	9 state	acl:relcl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 state	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 state	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other		what weather						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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