Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 12

The sun shone; and although they had a little rain too, that was good for the farmer; and when they got wetted thoroughly, they only thought what a blessing it was for the country.

Who acts: sun, people, that, blessing · What happens: shine, have, be, wett, think · To what, where: little rain, people, blessing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, people, that, blessing), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
6	although	although	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rain	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rain	amod
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 good	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 had	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 farmer	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 farmer	det
19	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 good	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thought	cc
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 wetted	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wetted	nsubj
24	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wetted	aux:pass
25	wetted	wett	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 thought	advcl
26	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	25 wetted	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wetted	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 thought	advmod
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 thought	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 blessing	det
33	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 what	nsubj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 country	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 country	cop
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 country	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 country	det
38	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blessing	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	people	a little rain		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient
3	is	past	that		for the farmer; good property	tree rules
4	wett	past · passive		people	thoroughly property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	people			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	blessing	a blessing not said here	for the country	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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