Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 64
You related so much, and I saw it all the while the rain was pouring down, and I standing there with the dust-box.
Who acts: You, I, rain · What happens: relate, see, pour down, stand · To what, where: letter
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 (You, I, rain), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 related | nsubj |
| 2 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 related | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 related | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 the | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 pouring | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rain | det |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pouring | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pouring | aux |
| 16 | pouring | pour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 pouring | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 standing | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 standing | nsubj |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pouring | conj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 standing | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 box | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 box | det |
| 25 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 box | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 dust | punct |
| 27 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | You | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | I | letter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pour down | past · progressive | the rain | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | I | there | with the dust box | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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