Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 13

Every trade was located in the basement of the houses or in the side thoroughfares; and the sun shone with such heat, and the air was so close, that one seemed to be in an oven full of beetles, cockchafers, bees and flies, all humming and buzzing together.

Who acts: sun, air, one, all · What happens: locate, shine, be, seem, hum, buzz · To what, where: trade, basement, oven

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, air, one, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 trade	det
2	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 located	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 located	aux:pass
4	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 basement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basement	det
7	basement	basement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 located	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 houses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 houses	det
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 basement	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 thoroughfares	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 thoroughfares	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thoroughfares	det
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thoroughfares	compound
15	thoroughfares	thoroughfare	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 houses	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 shone	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shone	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shone	nsubj
20	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 located	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 heat	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 heat	amod
23	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shone	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 close	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 close	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 close	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 close	advmod
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 located	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seemed	punct
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seemed	nsubj
34	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 close	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	39 oven	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 oven	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 oven	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 oven	det
39	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seemed	xcomp
40	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 oven	amod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 beetles	case
42	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 full	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cockchafers	punct
44	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 beetles	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 bees	punct
46	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 beetles	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 flies	cc
48	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 beetles	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 humming	punct
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 humming	nsubj
51	humming	hum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 oven	appos
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 buzzing	cc
53	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 humming	conj
54	together	together	ADV	_	53 buzzing	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 located	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	locate	past · passive		every trade	the basement of the houses or the side thoroughfares		tree rules
2	shine	participle	the sun			with such heat	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme
3	is	past	the air			close property	tree rules
4	seem	past	that one				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	that one not said here		a oven		tree rules
6	hum	gerund	all				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
7	buzz	gerund	all not said here			together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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