Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 100

There were ladies with tasteful and with tasteless dresses; the big hall was quite crowded with people.

Who acts: ladies, big hall · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, big hall), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 dresses	case
5	tasteful	tasteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dresses	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dresses	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 dresses	case
8	tasteless	tasteless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dresses	amod
9	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ladies	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 crowded	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hall	amod
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crowded	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 crowded	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 crowded	advmod
16	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crowded	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	ladies with tasteful tasteless dresses			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the big hall					with people; crowded property	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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