Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 125

On a beautiful sunny autumn day--one could almost have believed it was still the middle of summer--there hopped about in the dry clean-swept courtyard before the principal entrance of the Hall a number of black, white, and gaily-coloured pigeons, all shining in the sunlight.

Who acts: sake, all · What happens: believe, be, hop about, sweep, shine · To what, where: one, middle, dry clean swept courtyard, black coloured pigeons, sunlight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sake, all), 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	On	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 believed	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 believed	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 believed	aux
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 believed	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 believed	aux
12	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 day	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 middle	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 middle	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 middle	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 believed	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 summer	case
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 hopped	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 hopped	expl
22	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 believed	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 hopped	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	30 courtyard	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 courtyard	det
26	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 courtyard	amod
27	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 courtyard	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 clean	punct
29	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 courtyard	amod
30	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hopped	obl
31	before	before	ADP	_	34 entrance	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 entrance	det
33	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 entrance	amod
34	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 courtyard	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Hall	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Hall	det
37	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 entrance	nmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 number	det
39	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 entrance	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	49 pigeons	case
41	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 pigeons	amod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 white	punct
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 black	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 pigeons	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 pigeons	cc
46	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 coloured	amod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 gaily	punct
48	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 pigeons	amod
49	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 number	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 shining	punct
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 shining	nsubj
52	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 pigeons	acl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 sunlight	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 sunlight	det
55	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 shining	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	could · perfect · passive		one			almost property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	is a	past	sake	the middle		still; summer		tree rules
3	hop about	past			the dry clean swept courtyard before the principal entrance of the Hall and a number of black coloured pigeons; there		about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Trajectory
4	sweep	participle						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shine	gerund	all	black coloured pigeons not said here	the sunlight			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pigeon=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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