The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 7

The sun shone brightly, and all the bells in the church-towers were pealing; the people were dressed in their best clothes, and were going to church, with their hymn books under their arms, to hear the minister preach.

Who acts: sun, bells, minister · What happens: shine, peal, dress, go, hear, preach · To what, where: people, best clothes, church, minister

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, bells, minister), 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	_	16 pealing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pealing	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bells	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pealing	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 towers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 towers	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 towers	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 church	punct
14	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bells	nmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pealing	aux
16	pealing	peal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shone	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dressed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dressed	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dressed	aux:pass
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 clothes	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 clothes	nmod:poss
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 clothes	amod
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 dressed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 going	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shone	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 church	case
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 going	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 books	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 books	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 books	nmod:poss
35	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 books	compound
36	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 going	obl
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 arms	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 arms	nmod:poss
39	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 books	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hear	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 hear	mark
42	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 going	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 minister	det
44	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hear	obj
45	preach	preach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 hear	xcomp
46	.	.	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	peal	past · progressive	all bells in the church towers				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dress	past · passive		the people	people's best clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	go	past · progressive			church	with people's hymn books under people's arms	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
5	hear	to-infinitive		the minister			tree rules
6	preach speech: other	infinitive	the minister not said here				vn lecture-37.11-1 «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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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