Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 59
On land, the boats were all carefully drawn up on the beach, every living thing sought shelter, and at length the rain poured down in torrents.
Who acts: living thing · What happens: draw up, seek, pour down · To what, where: boats, land, shelter, rain, torrents
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living thing), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 land | case |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawn | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 land | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boats | det |
| 5 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drawn | aux:pass |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 drawn | advmod |
| 8 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 drawn | advmod |
| 9 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 drawn | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 beach | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beach | det |
| 13 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thing | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thing | compound |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beach | conj |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 thing | acl |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 length | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 length | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 length | case |
| 23 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawn | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rain | det |
| 25 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 length | nsubj |
| 26 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 rain | acl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 poured | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 torrents | case |
| 29 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 poured | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past · passive | the boats | land | on the beach and every living thing; at length; all, carefully property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on land=Destination | |||
| 2 | seek | participle | every living thing not said here | shelter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour down | participle | the rain not said here | torrents | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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