Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 5
The rain was intended to pour out at the dragon's mouth, but it ran out of his body instead, for there was a hole in the gutter.
Who acts: rain, hole · What happens: intend, pour out, run, be · To what, where: rain, mouth, body
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, hole), 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 | 4 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | aux:pass |
| 4 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pour | mark |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intended | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 pour | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 dragon | case |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 21 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 was | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 gutter | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gutter | det |
| 30 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hole | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | the rain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pour out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dragon's mouth | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | run | past | rain | dragon's body | instead property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out body=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | be | past | a hole in the gutter | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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