Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 31

The air was dark with flying tiles; old wood-work crashed and fell; and a wheelbarrow ran up the streets all alone, only to get out of the way.

Who acts: air, old wood work, wheelbarrow · What happens: be, fly, crash, fall, run up, get out · To what, where: streets, way

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 (air, old wood work, wheelbarrow), 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 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tiles	case
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 tiles	amod
7	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dark	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 work	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crashed	nsubj
13	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crashed	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wheelbarrow	det
19	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 ran	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 streets	det
23	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ran	obj
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 alone	advmod
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 get	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dark	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 way	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the air		with flying tiles; dark property	tree rules
2	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crash	past	old wood work			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fall	past	old wood work not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run up	past	a wheelbarrow	the streets	alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location street=Theme
6	get out	to-infinitive	the air not said here	the way		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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