--- title: People at this hour began to make their appearance in all the balcon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: People at this hour began to make their appearance in all the balconies in the street; for in warm climates every window has a balcony, in which they can breathe the fresh evening air, which is very necessary, even to those who are used to a heat that makes them as brown as mahogany; so that the str --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/) / 9 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 9 People at this hour began to make their appearance in all the balconies in the street; for in warm climates every window has a balcony, in which they can breathe the fresh evening air, which is very necessary, even to those who are used to a heat that makes them as brown as mahogany; so that the street presented a very lively appearance. **Who acts:** People, window, fresh evening air, heat, street · **What happens:** begin, make, have, breathe, be, use · **To what, where:** appearance, balconies, balcony, fresh evening air, window, lively appearance This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, window, fresh evening air, heat), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:165:9 # text = People at this hour began to make their appearance in all the balconies in the street; for in warm climates every window has a balcony, in which they can breathe the fresh evening air, which is very necessary, even to those who are used to a heat that makes them as brown as mahogany; so that the street presented a very lively appearance. 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 balconies balcony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 climates climate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 very very ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 even even ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 41 conj _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 acl:relcl _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 53 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 54 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ _ 55 as as ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 xcomp _ _ 57 as as ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 mahogany mahogany NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ; ; PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 60 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 64 mark _ _ 61 that that SCONJ IN _ 60 fixed _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 64 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 65 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 66 very very ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 67 lively lively ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | People at this hour | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | People at this hour *not said here* | people's appearance | | all balconies in the street | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product | | 3 | **have** | present | every window | a balcony | | | | for warm climates | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balcony=Patient | | 4 | **breathe** | can | window | the fresh evening air | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the fresh evening air | | | | | necessary *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **use** | present · passive | | | | | | to a heat | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **make** | present | a heat | window | | | | brown *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 8 | **present** | past | the street | a lively appearance | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/10/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/)