Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 10

The street boys were screaming and hooting, and shouting and shooting, with devils and detonating balls--and there came corpse bearers and hood wearers--for there were funerals with psalm and hymn--and then the din of carriages driving and company arriving: yes, it was, in truth, lively enough down in the street.

Who acts: street boys, funerals, carriages, company · What happens: scream, hoot, detonate, come, be, drive · To what, where: shouting, balls, corpse bearers, company, truth

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street boys, funerals, carriages, company), 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	3 boys	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 screaming	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 screaming	aux
5	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hooting	cc
7	hooting	hoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 screaming	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shouting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shouting	cc
10	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hooting	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shooting	cc
12	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 devils	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 devils	case
15	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shouting	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 detonating	cc
17	detonating	detonate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 screaming	conj
18	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 detonating	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 came	expl
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 screaming	conj
23	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bearers	compound
24	bearers	bearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wearers	cc
26	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wearers	compound
27	wearers	wearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bearers	conj
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 were	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 were	mark
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 were	expl
31	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bearers	acl
32	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 were	nsubj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 psalm	case
34	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 funerals	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hymn	cc
36	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 psalm	conj
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 din	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 din	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 din	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 din	det
41	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 carriages	case
43	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 din	nmod
44	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 carriages	acl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 company	cc
46	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 driving	obj
47	arriving	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 company	acl
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	55 truth	punct
49	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	55 truth	discourse
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 yes	punct
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 truth	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 truth	cop
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 truth	punct
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 truth	case
55	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 din	parataxis
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 lively	punct
57	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 truth	amod
58	enough	enough	ADV	_	57 lively	advmod
59	down	down	ADV	_	57 lively	advmod
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 street	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 street	det
62	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 lively	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 screaming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past · progressive	the street boys				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hoot	gerund	the street boys not said here	shouting and shooting and devils			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shouting=Theme
3	detonate	gerund	the street boys not said here	balls			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
4	come	past	the street boys not said here	corpse bearers and hood wearers	there	the din of carriages obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bearer=Theme
5	be	past	funerals with psalm and hymn	corpse bearers and hood wearers not said here	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bearer=Theme
6	drive	gerund	carriages not said here	company			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme company=Trajectory
7	arrive	gerund	company not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	company		truth		tree rules
9	din		carriages				nom din «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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