Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 37
Suddenly a heavy shower of rain came falling from the clouds.
Who acts: heavy shower · What happens: come, fall · To what, where: clouds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy shower), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shower | det |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shower | amod |
| 4 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rain | case |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shower | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 came | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 clouds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clouds | det |
| 11 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 falling | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a heavy shower of rain | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | a heavy shower of rain not said here | the clouds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Initial_Location |
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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