Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 89
The Princess now stood and wept, the swineherd scolded, and the rain poured down.
Who acts: Princess, swineherd, rain · What happens: stand, weep, scold, pour down
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, swineherd, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scolded | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swineherd | det |
| 9 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scolded | nsubj |
| 10 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 poured | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 poured | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rain | det |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poured | nsubj |
| 15 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 poured | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Princess | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the Princess not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scold | past | the swineherd | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pour down | past | the rain | down property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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