The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 26

But that was not enough for him, and for days and weeks he poured forth rain till the rivers overflowed their banks, and the crops of rice stood in water.

Who acts: that, cloud, rivers, crops · What happens: not be, pour, overflow, stand · To what, where: rain, banks, water

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, cloud, rivers, crops), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 enough	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 enough	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enough	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 enough	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enough	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poured	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poured	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 poured	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 weeks	cc
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poured	nsubj
15	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enough	parataxis
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 poured	advmod
17	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poured	obj
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 overflowed	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rivers	det
20	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 overflowed	nsubj
21	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 poured	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 banks	nmod:poss
23	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 overflowed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stood	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crops	det
27	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stood	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 rice	case
29	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crops	nmod
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enough	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 water	case
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	that				for cloud; enough property	tree rules
2	pour	past	cloud	rain		day	forth property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient
3	overflow	past	the rivers	rivers's banks				tree rules
4	stand	past	the crops of rice		water			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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