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title: Shortly after Christmas I was going up the street; it was rough weat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after Christmas I was going up the street; it was rough weather, wet and dirty--the right kind of weather to catch cold in. Who acts: I, bit. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 8

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Shortly after Christmas I was going up the street; it was rough weather, wet and dirty--the right kind of weather to catch cold in.

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**Who acts:** I, bit · **What happens:** go up, be, catch · **To what, where:** street, rough weather

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bit), 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:pg27200:138:8
# text = Shortly after Christmas I was going up the street; it was rough weather, wet and dirty--the right kind of weather to catch cold in.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
27	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past · progressive | I | the street |  |  | after Christmas | shortly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient street=Extent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | bit | rough weather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | bit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «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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