Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 14

“And now the rain pours right down the stalk!

Who acts: rain · What happens: pour · To what, where: stalk

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 pours	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 pours	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 pours	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rain	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pours	nsubj
6	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	right	right	ADV	_	10 stalk	advmod
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 stalk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stalk	det
10	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pours	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 pours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour in a quote	present	the rain	the stalk			now		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient

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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