Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 6
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents.
Who acts: terrible storm, thunder, rain · What happens: come on, be, pour down · To what, where: torrents
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible storm, thunder, rain), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 storm | amod |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 11 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lightning | cc |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thunder | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 poured | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poured | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rain | det |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poured | nsubj |
| 18 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | parataxis |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 poured | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 torrents | case |
| 21 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 poured | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | a terrible storm | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | thunder and lightning | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour down | participle | the rain | torrents | 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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