Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 109

It was indeed a Swiss town in its holiday dress.

Who acts: cross · What happens: be · To what, where: Swiss town, holiday dress

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cross), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 town	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 town	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 dress	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dress	nmod:poss
9	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dress	compound
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 town	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 town	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cross	a Swiss town		cross's holiday dress		indeed 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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