Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 79

The apples were beginning to roast. "

Who acts: apples · What happens: begin, roast

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 (apples), 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 apples	det
2	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beginning	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beginning	aux
4	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roast	mark
6	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beginning	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beginning	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	the apples						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roast	to-infinitive	the apples not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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