Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 14

It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets.

Who acts: few, noon, gaily dressed holiday folks · What happens: be, threaten, begin, clear up, dress, fill · To what, where: noon, weather, streets

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, noon, gaily dressed holiday folks), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 noon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noon	cop
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 weather	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weather	det
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noon	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 threatened	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 threatened	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 threatened	aux
11	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 weather	acl:relcl
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threatened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 noon	punct
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 clear	mark
16	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 clear	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 filled	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 filled	mark
20	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 folks	amod
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 folks	amod
22	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 folks	compound
23	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 filled	nsubj
24	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 streets	det
26	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 filled	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	few	noon and the weather	tree rules
2	threaten	past · perfect · passive		the weather	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer rain=Result
3	begin	past	noon and the weather		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	clear up	to-infinitive	noon and the weather not said here		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
5	dress	participle			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fill	past	gaily dressed holiday folks	the streets	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient

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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