Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 33

Presently it began to rain, and the drops fell faster and faster, till there was a heavy shower.

Who acts: head, drops, heavy shower · What happens: begin, fall, be · To what, where: rain

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, drops, heavy shower), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rain	mark
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drops	det
9	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 fell	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 faster	cc
13	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 faster	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shower	det
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shower	amod
20	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	head	rain		presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality
2	fall	past	the drops			fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	a heavy shower		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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