Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 86
There she stood and cried, the swineherd scolded her, and the rain came down in torrents.
Who acts: daughter, swineherd, rain · What happens: stand, cry, scold, come down · To what, where: daughter, torrents
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, swineherd, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scolded | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swineherd | det |
| 8 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scolded | nsubj |
| 9 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scolded | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rain | det |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 torrents | case |
| 18 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | daughter | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | daughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scold | past | the swineherd | daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come down | past | the rain | torrents | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in torrent=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: «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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