Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 5

One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the rain poured down from the sky in torrents: besides, it was as dark as pitch.

Who acts: fearful tempest, tempest, rain · What happens: arise, thunder, lighten, pour down, be · To what, where: sky

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fearful tempest, tempest, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arose	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tempest	det
4	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tempest	amod
5	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arose	nsubj
6	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thundered	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thundered	nsubj
9	thundered	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arose	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lightened	cc
11	lightened	lighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thundered	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poured	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 poured	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rain	det
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poured	nsubj
16	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arose	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 poured	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sky	det
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poured	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 torrents	case
22	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 poured	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 besides	punct
24	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 torrents	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dark	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dark	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dark	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 dark	advmod
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poured	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 pitch	case
31	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dark	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	a fearful tempest		evening		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thunder	past	tempest				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lighten	participle	tempest not said here				vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	pour down	past	the rain	the sky		in torrents and besides; down property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from sky=Source
5	is	past	rain			as pitch; dark 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: «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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