Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 8

Shortly after Christmas I was going up the street; it was rough weather, wet and dirty--the right kind of weather to catch cold in.

Who acts: I, bit · What happens: go up, be, catch · To what, where: street, rough weather

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bit), 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	Shortly	shortly	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 Christmas	case
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 weather	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weather	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 weather	cop
13	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weather	amod
14	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wet	punct
16	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weather	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dirty	cc
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wet	conj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kind	det
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kind	amod
22	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weather	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 weather	case
24	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kind	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 catch	mark
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 kind	acl
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 catch	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	27 cold	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past · progressive	I	the street	after Christmas	shortly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient street=Extent
2	is a	past	bit	rough weather			tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	bit not said here			cold property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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