Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 28

The whole of the ground-floor was a row of shops, and there people could not always be running through.

Who acts: people · What happens: be, not run through · To what, where: whole row

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whole	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 row	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ground	punct
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whole	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 row	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 row	det
10	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 shops	case
12	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 row	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 running	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 running	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 people	expl
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 running	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 running	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 running	advmod
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 running	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 running	aux
21	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 row	conj
22	through	through	ADV	_	21 running	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 row	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a whole row				of shops	tree rules
2	not run through	could · progressive	people					always, through property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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