Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 19

The rain poured down in torrents; yet despite these two obstacles, the young man was obliged to go out, if it were but for a quarter of an hour; and as to telling the door-keeper about it, that, he thought, was quite unnecessary, if, with a whole skin, he were able to slip through the railings.

Who acts: rain, man · What happens: pour down, oblige, go out, be, tell, think · To what, where: rain, torrents, young man, door keeper, railings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, man), 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 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 thought	nsubj
3	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rain	acl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 poured	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 torrents	case
6	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poured	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 obliged	punct
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	18 obliged	cc
9	despite	despite	ADP	_	12 obstacles	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 obstacles	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 obstacles	nummod
12	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 obliged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obstacles	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 obliged	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 obliged	aux:pass
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rain	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 obliged	xcomp
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quarter	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 quarter	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 quarter	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 quarter	cop
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 quarter	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 quarter	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 quarter	det
29	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 hour	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hour	det
32	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 quarter	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 thought	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 thought	cc
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 telling	mark
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
37	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 thought	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 keeper	det
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 keeper	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 door	punct
41	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 telling	obj
42	about	about	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 keeper	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 that	punct
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 telling	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 telling	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 thought	nsubj
48	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 unnecessary	punct
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 unnecessary	cop
51	quite	quite	ADV	_	52 unnecessary	advmod
52	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 thought	ccomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 if	punct
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	63 able	mark
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 if	punct
56	with	with	ADP	_	59 skin	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 skin	det
58	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 skin	amod
59	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 if	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 if	punct
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 able	nsubj
62	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 able	cop
63	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 unnecessary	advcl
64	to	to	PART	_	65 slip	mark
65	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 able	xcomp
66	through	through	ADP	_	68 railings	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 railings	det
68	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 slip	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour down	participle		the rain not said here	torrents			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	oblige	past · passive		the young man			despite this two obstacles	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	go out	to-infinitive					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	rain			hour	for a quarter	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	the rain not said here	the door keeper			about rain; that obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient about it=Topic
6	think speech: other	past	the rain					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past					unnecessary property	tree rules
8	is a condition, not said to happen	past	man				able property	tree rules
9	slip	to-infinitive	man not said here		the railings			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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