Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 29
Flowers, books, letters, and visiting cards came pouring in.
Who acts: Flowers · What happens: visit, come, pour in · To what, where: cards
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, 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 (Flowers), 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 | Flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 books | punct |
| 3 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flowers | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 letters | punct |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flowers | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 came | csubj |
| 9 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 visiting | obj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 came | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 pouring | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | cards | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Flowers and books and letters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pour in | gerund | Flowers and books and letters not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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