Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 33
The pitch-black clouds poured down their contents in still heavier torrents; not a creature was to be seen in the streets.
What happens: pour down, see · To what, where: black clouds, heavier torrents, creature, streets
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: 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 | 5 clouds | det |
| 2 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 black | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pitch | punct |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clouds | amod |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 poured | compound:prt |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 contents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 poured | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 torrents | case |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 heavier | advmod |
| 12 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 torrents | amod |
| 13 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poured | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 creature | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 creature | det |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 poured | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 streets | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 streets | det |
| 24 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seen | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour down | participle · passive | the black clouds | heavier torrents | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme contents=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a creature | the streets | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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