Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 18

There were crowds of people, and sometimes the weather would be rainy, and splash with moisture the woollen jackets of the peasants; but it did not destroy the beautiful fragrance of the honey-cakes and gingerbread with which one booth was filled; and the best of it was, that the man who sold these cakes always lodged during the fair-time with little Knud's parents.

Who acts: crowds, weather, man, best · What happens: be, splash, not destroy, fill, sell · To what, where: woollen jackets, beautiful fragrance, one booth, cakes

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 (crowds, weather, man, best), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowds	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rainy	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rainy	cc
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 rainy	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weather	det
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rainy	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 rainy	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 rainy	cop
13	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 splash	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 splash	cc
16	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rainy	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 moisture	case
18	moisture	moisture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 splash	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 jackets	det
20	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jackets	amod
21	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 splash	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 peasants	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peasants	det
24	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 jackets	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 destroy	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 destroy	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 destroy	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 destroy	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 destroy	advmod
30	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 splash	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fragrance	det
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fragrance	amod
33	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 destroy	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 cakes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cakes	det
36	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cakes	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 honey	punct
38	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fragrance	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 gingerbread	cc
40	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cakes	conj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 filled	obl
43	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 booth	compound
44	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 filled	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 filled	aux:pass
46	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 gingerbread	acl:relcl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 lodged	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 best	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 best	det
50	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	63 lodged	nsubj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 best	obl
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 lodged	cop
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 lodged	punct
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 lodged	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 man	det
57	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 lodged	nsubj
58	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 sold	nsubj
59	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 man	acl:relcl
60	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	61 cakes	det
61	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 sold	obj
62	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	63 lodged	advmod
63	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
64	during	during	ADP	_	68 time	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 time	det
66	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 time	amod
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 fair	punct
68	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 lodged	obl
69	with	with	ADP	_	73 parents	case
70	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 Knud	amod
71	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 parents	nmod:poss
72	's	's	PART	_	71 Knud	case
73	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 time	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	crowds of people		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	the weather				rainy, sometimes property	tree rules
3	splash	present		the woollen jackets of the peasants			with moisture	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Destination with moisture=Theme
4	not destroy	past · do-support	weather	the beautiful fragrance of the honey cakes and gingerbread				vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument fragrance=Patient
5	fill	past · passive		one booth			with gingerbread	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument
6	sell	past	the man	this cakes				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
7	is	past	the best			time	always, lodge property	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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