Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 7

The sun shone brightly, and the church bells were ringing merrily as the people passed by, dressed in their best clothes, with their prayer-books under their arms.

Who acts: sun, church bells · What happens: shine, ring, pass by, dress · To what, where: people, best clothes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, church bells), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ringing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ringing	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bells	compound
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ringing	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ringing	aux
11	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shone	advcl
12	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	11 ringing	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ringing	obl
16	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 people	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	16 passed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dressed	punct
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 people	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 clothes	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 clothes	nmod:poss
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 clothes	amod
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 dressed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 books	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 books	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 books	nmod:poss
27	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 books	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 prayer	punct
29	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ringing	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 arms	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arms	nmod:poss
32	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 books	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ring	past · progressive	the church bells			as the people; with bells's prayer books under bells's arms; merrily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with book=Theme
3	pass by	participle		the people not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dress	participle		the people not said here	bells's best clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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