The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 19

But it seems getting cloudy, and if there should be heavy rain the other bucket will fill and sink to the bottom, and his will go up--at least it may!'

Who acts: it, heavy rain · What happens: seem, get, fill, sink, go up

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, 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	_	3 seems	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 seems	xcomp
5	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fill	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fill	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 be	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 fill	advcl
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rain	amod
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fill	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bucket	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bucket	amod
16	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fill	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fill	aux
18	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seems	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sink	cc
20	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fill	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 bottom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bottom	det
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sink	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 go	nmod:poss
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 seems	parataxis
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 may	punct
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 least	case
32	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 may	obl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 may	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	advcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 may	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	present	it		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	get	gerund		cloudy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fill	future	heavy rain		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	sink	infinitive	heavy rain not said here	to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	go up	future			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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