Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 37

Good gracious, what large waves arose in that gutter! and how fast the stream rolled on! for the rain had been very heavy.

Who acts: large waves, stream · What happens: arise, roll on, be · To what, where: gutter, stream

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 (large waves, stream), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gracious	amod
2	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gracious	conj
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 waves	amod
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arose	nsubj
7	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 gutter	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 gutter	det
10	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arose	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 gracious	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heavy	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 heavy	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stream	det
16	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heavy	nsubj
17	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stream	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 rolled	compound:prt
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 rolled	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 rain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rain	det
22	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rolled	obl
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heavy	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 heavy	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 heavy	advmod
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gracious	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gracious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past	large waves		that gutter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gutter=Location
2	roll on	participle		the stream not said here		for the rain	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	the stream			fast, heavy property	tree rules

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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