Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 6

It was crying and knocking at the door, whilst the rain was pouring down and the wind was rattling all the windows.

Who acts: child, rain, wind · What happens: cry, knock, pour down, rattle · To what, where: windows

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, rain, wind), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 knocking	cc
5	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crying	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pouring	punct
10	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	14 pouring	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rain	det
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pouring	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pouring	aux
14	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crying	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 pouring	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rattling	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rattling	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rattling	aux
20	rattling	rattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 pouring	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 windows	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 windows	det
23	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rattling	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	child			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	knock	gerund	child not said here		at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	pour down	past · progressive	the rain		down property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	rattle	past · progressive	the wind	all windows		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent window=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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