Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 44

You said a great deal about them, and I read all while the rain was pouring down and I was standing there with the dust-bin.

Who acts: You, I, rain · What happens: say, read, pour down, stand · To what, where: great deal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, I, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 read	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 read	nsubj
11	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	11 read	advmod
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 pouring	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rain	det
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pouring	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pouring	aux
17	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 read	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 pouring	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 standing	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 standing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 standing	aux
22	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pouring	conj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 standing	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	28 bin	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bin	det
26	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bin	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 dust	punct
28	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	You	a great deal		about countries = country	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deal=Topic
2	read	past	I			all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pour down	past · progressive	the rain			down property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	stand	past · progressive	I		there	with the dust bin	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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