Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 2

There was often a good deal of show in the streets--show that we don't see nowadays, because it has been abolished as too old-fashioned.

Who acts: good deal, we · What happens: be, show, not see, abolish, deal · To what, where: deal, show · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (good deal, we), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	often	often	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 show	case
8	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 streets	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 streets	det
11	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 show	nmod
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
13	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 show	ccomp
19	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	18 see	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 abolished	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 abolished	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 abolished	nsubj:pass
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 abolished	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 abolished	aux:pass
25	abolished	abolish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 see	parataxis
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 fashioned	mark
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 old	advmod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fashioned	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 old	punct
30	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 abolished	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a good deal of show in the streets		there	often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	present					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see	present · do-support	we			nowadays property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	abolish	present · perfect · passive		deal			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	deal			show in the streets			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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