Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 14
Whether it be rain or sunshine, these crowds of children are always to be seen with their wares.
Who acts: it · What happens: be, see · To what, where: rain, crowds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 rain | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rain | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rain | cop |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | advcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 sunshine | cc |
| 6 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rain | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rain | punct |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 crowds | det |
| 9 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crowds | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 seen | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wares | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wares | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | it | rain or sunshine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present · passive | this crowds of children | with children's wares; always property | 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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