Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 100
The rain poured down in streams,--now there was darkness, then blinding light,--now thrilling silence, then deafening din.
What happens: pour down, be, blind, thrill, deafen · To what, where: rain, streams, darkness, light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rain | det |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rain | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 poured | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 streams | case |
| 6 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poured | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 darkness | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 darkness | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 was | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 darkness | cop |
| 12 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rain | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blinding | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 blinding | advmod |
| 15 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rain | conj |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blinding | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 silence | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 silence | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 thrilling | advmod |
| 20 | thrilling | thrill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 silence | amod |
| 21 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 din | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 deafening | advmod |
| 24 | deafening | deafen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 din | amod |
| 25 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rain | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour down | participle | the rain and darkness and deafening din not said here | streams | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | darkness | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | blind | gerund | light and thrilling silence | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | thrill | gerund | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | deafen | gerund | then | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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