Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 6

The rain was pouring down, yet, in spite of these two obstacles, he wanted to go out just for a quarter of an hour; it was not worth while, he thought, to make a confidant of the porter, as he could easily slip through the iron railings.

Who acts: rain, tale · What happens: pour down, want, go out, not be, think, make · To what, where: spite, confidant, iron railings, two obstacles · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tale), 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	4 pouring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pouring	aux
4	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 pouring	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	17 wanted	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yet	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 spite	case
10	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 obstacles	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 obstacles	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 obstacles	nummod
14	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spite	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spite	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pouring	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wanted	xcomp
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 quarter	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 quarter	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 quarter	det
24	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 hour	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 quarter	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 worth	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 worth	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 worth	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 worth	advmod
32	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wanted	parataxis
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 thought	mark
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 while	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 worth	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 make	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 make	mark
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 thought	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 confidant	det
41	confidant	confidant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 porter	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 porter	det
44	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 confidant	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 slip	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 slip	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 slip	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 slip	aux
49	easily	easily	ADV	_	50 slip	advmod
50	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 make	conj
51	through	through	ADP	_	54 railings	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 railings	det
53	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 railings	amod
54	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 slip	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pouring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pour down	past · progressive	the rain				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	want	past	rain		spite of this two obstacles		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	rain not said here			for a quarter of a hour; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	tale			worth property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	rain				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive		a confidant of the porter			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confidant=Product
7	slip	could	rain		the iron railings	easily property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	spite			this two obstacles			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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