Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 8
* It was lively both up and down the street.
Who acts: window · What happens: be
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 (window), 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 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 4 lively | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lively | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lively | cop |
| 4 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 6 up | cc:preconj |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 lively | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 street | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 street | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 street | det |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 up | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lively | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | window | lively 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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