Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 17

The town had a large market-place; and at the fair-time there would be whole rows, like streets, of tents and booths containing silks and ribbons, and toys and cakes, and everything that could be wished for.

Who acts: town, tents · What happens: have, be, contain, wish · To what, where: large market place, whole rows, silks, everything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, tents), 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 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
6	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 market	punct
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 be	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 fair	punct
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 be	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 be	expl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 rows	cop
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rows	amod
20	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 streets	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 streets	case
23	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rows	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tents	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 tents	case
26	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rows	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 booths	cc
28	booths	booth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tents	conj
29	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 tents	acl
30	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 containing	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ribbons	cc
32	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 silks	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 toys	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 toys	cc
35	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rows	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cakes	cc
37	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 toys	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 wished	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 wished	cc
40	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	44 wished	nsubj:pass
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 wished	nsubj:pass
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 wished	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 wished	aux:pass
44	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	44 wished	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	the town	a large market place	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	is a	infinitive		whole rows and streets and tents and booths and toys and cakes	tree rules
3	contain	gerund	tents and booths not said here	silks and ribbons	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot silk=Theme
4	wish	could · passive		everything	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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