Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 29

Where was the real entrance? for, both in the street and in the lane at the side, the whole ground floor was a continuation of shops; and people could not always be passing through them.

Who acts: whole ground floor, people · What happens: be, not pass · To what, where: real entrance, continuation

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole ground floor, people), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 entrance	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entrance	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 entrance	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 entrance	amod
5	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 entrance	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 street	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 street	punct
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 street	cc:preconj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entrance	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lane	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 lane	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lane	det
16	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 street	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lane	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 continuation	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 floor	amod
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 floor	compound
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 continuation	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 continuation	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 continuation	det
27	continuation	continuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entrance	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 shops	case
29	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 continuation	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 passing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 passing	cc
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 passing	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 passing	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 passing	advmod
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 passing	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 passing	aux
37	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 entrance	acl
38	through	through	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 passing	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 entrance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the real entrance and a continuation	for the street and the lane at the side	tree rules
2	is a	past	the whole ground floor	a continuation	of shops	tree rules
3	not pass	could · progressive	people	the real entrance and a continuation not said here	through shops = shop; always property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme through they=Destination

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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