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title: It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to cle… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets. Who acts: few, noon, gaily dressed holiday folks. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 14

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It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets.

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**Who acts:** few, noon, gaily dressed holiday folks · **What happens:** be, threaten, begin, clear up, dress, fill · **To what, where:** noon, weather, streets

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, noon, gaily dressed holiday folks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:8:14
# text = It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | few | noon and the weather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **threaten** | past · perfect · passive |  | the weather |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer rain=Result |
| 3 | **begin** | past | noon and the weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **clear up** | to-infinitive | noon and the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fill** | past | gaily dressed holiday folks | the streets |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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