Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 23

He was walking one evening through the public roads, the country around him was flatter, with fields and meadows, the air had a frosty feeling.

Who acts: Knud, walking, air · What happens: walk, be, have · To what, where: public roads, frosty feeling

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, walking, air), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walking	aux
3	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 flatter	csubj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 evening	nummod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 roads	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roads	det
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roads	amod
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 country	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roads	conj
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 country	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flatter	cop
16	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fields	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 fields	case
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flatter	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 meadows	cc
21	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fields	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flatter	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 feeling	det
27	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feeling	amod
28	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 flatter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	Knud		the public roads and the country around man	evening		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through road=Trajectory
2	is	past	walking				with fields and meadows; flat property	tree rules
3	have	past	the air	a frosty feeling				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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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