Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 57

I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torrents, the scavengers were before the house where I was in service, and I had come up with the dust, and remained standing at the door--it was dreadful weather--when just as I was there, the postman came and gave me a letter.

Who acts: I, rain, scavengers, postman · What happens: remember, pour down, be, come up, remain, stand · To what, where: torrents, service, door, dreadful weather, letter, me

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rain, scavengers, postman), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 remember	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pouring	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pouring	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rain	det
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pouring	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pouring	aux
12	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 remember	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 pouring	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 torrents	case
15	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pouring	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 house	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 scavengers	det
18	scavengers	scavenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 house	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 house	cop
20	before	before	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	parataxis
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 service	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 service	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 service	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 service	case
27	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 come	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 remember	parataxis
33	up	up	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 dust	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dust	det
36	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 remained	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 remained	cc
39	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	conj
40	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 remained	xcomp
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 door	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 door	det
43	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 standing	obl
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 weather	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 weather	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 weather	cop
47	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 weather	amod
48	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 remained	parataxis
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 there	punct
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 there	advmod
51	just	just	ADV	_	55 there	advmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 there	mark
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 there	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 there	cop
55	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 weather	parataxis
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 came	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 postman	det
58	postman	postman	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	nsubj
59	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 there	parataxis
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 gave	cc
61	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 came	conj
62	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 gave	iobj
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 letter	det
64	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 gave	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I				day	well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	pour down	past · progressive	the rain			torrents			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	is	past	the scavengers				before the house		tree rules
4	is	past	I			service			tree rules
5	come up	past · perfect	I					with the dust	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	remain	past	I not said here						tree rules
7	stand	gerund	I not said here			the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
8	is a	past	rain	dreadful weather					tree rules
9	is	past	I					there property	tree rules
10	come	past	the postman						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	give	past	the postman not said here	a letter	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient letter=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: «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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