Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 49
The crowd on the high road had been gradually increasing, and there was quite a rush of men and cattle.
Who acts: crowd, increasing · What happens: increase, be · To what, where: rush
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, increasing), 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 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 increasing | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crowd | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 increasing | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 increasing | aux |
| 9 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 10 increasing | advmod |
| 10 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 rush | csubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rush | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 rush | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rush | det |
| 17 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rush | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cattle | cc |
| 21 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 men | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past · perfect · progressive | the crowd on the high road | gradually property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | increasing | quite rush | of men and cattle | 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: «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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