--- title: There were crowds of people, and sometimes the weather would be rain… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There were crowds of people, and sometimes the weather would be rainy, and splash with moisture the woollen jackets of the peasants; but it did not destroy the beautiful fragrance of the honey-cakes and gingerbread with which one booth was filled; and the best of it was, that the man who sold these --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/18/) [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/) / [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/) / 18 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 18 There were crowds of people, and sometimes the weather would be rainy, and splash with moisture the woollen jackets of the peasants; but it did not destroy the beautiful fragrance of the honey-cakes and gingerbread with which one booth was filled; and the best of it was, that the man who sold these cakes always lodged during the fair-time with little Knud's parents. **Who acts:** crowds, weather, man, best · **What happens:** be, splash, not destroy, fill, sell · **To what, where:** woollen jackets, beautiful fragrance, one booth, cakes This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowds, weather, man, best), 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:pg27200:202:18 # text = There were crowds of people, and sometimes the weather would be rainy, and splash with moisture the woollen jackets of the peasants; but it did not destroy the beautiful fragrance of the honey-cakes and gingerbread with which one booth was filled; and the best of it was, that the man who sold these cakes always lodged during the fair-time with little Knud's parents. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 splash splash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 moisture moisture NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 woollen woollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 jackets jacket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fragrance fragrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 gingerbread gingerbread NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 obl _ _ 43 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 booth booth NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 63 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 63 nsubj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obl _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 55 that that SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ _ 58 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 59 nsubj _ _ 59 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 acl:relcl _ _ 60 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 61 det _ _ 61 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obj _ _ 62 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 63 advmod _ _ 63 lodged lodge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 64 during during ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 66 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 69 with with ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 70 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 73 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 72 's 's PART POS _ 71 case _ _ 73 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | crowds of people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | would | the weather | | | | | rainy, sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **splash** | present | | the woollen jackets of the peasants | | | | with moisture | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Destination with moisture=Theme | | 4 | **not** **destroy** | past · do-support | weather | the beautiful fragrance of the honey cakes and gingerbread | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument fragrance=Patient | | 5 | **fill** | past · passive | | one booth | | | | with gingerbread | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument | | 6 | **sell** | past | the man | this cakes | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | the best | | | | time | always, lodge *property* | tree rules | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/19/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/)