The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 73
But nothing could be seen of her, and heavy rain was falling.
Who acts: heavy rain · What happens: see, fall · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 seen | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 falling | cc |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rain | amod |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 falling | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 falling | aux |
| 13 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | nothing | of girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · progressive | heavy rain | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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