Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 18
The rain poured, and not a creature could be seen in the street.
Who acts: rain · What happens: pour, not see · To what, where: creature, street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rain | det |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seen | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creature | det |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poured | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 street | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 street | det |
| 14 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | the rain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see | could · passive | a creature | the street | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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