Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 38

I remember one day distinctly: the rain was pouring down in torrents; the dust-man had come to the house where I was in service; I went down with the dust-bin and stood for a moment in the doorway, and looked at the dreadful weather.

Who acts: I, rain, dust man · What happens: remember, pour down, come, be, go down, stand · To what, where: torrents, house, service, doorway

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rain, dust man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obl:unmarked
5	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	2 remember	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pouring	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pouring	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pouring	aux
10	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 remember	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 pouring	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 torrents	case
13	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pouring	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 dust	punct
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 remember	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 service	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 service	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 service	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 service	case
28	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	conj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 bin	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bin	det
35	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bin	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 dust	punct
37	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stood	cc
39	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 moment	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 moment	det
42	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 doorway	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 doorway	det
45	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stood	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 looked	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 looked	cc
48	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 went	conj
49	at	at	ADP	_	52 weather	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 weather	det
51	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 weather	amod
52	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 looked	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I		day	distinctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	pour down	past · progressive	the rain	torrents			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	come	past · perfect	the dust man	the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	is	past	I	service			tree rules
5	go down	past	I			with the dust bin; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	stand	past	I not said here	the doorway	moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
7	look	past	I not said here			at the dreadful weather	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at weather=Theme

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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