The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 32

Instead of two or three hundred inches of rain falling, which they were all accustomed to, month after month passed without a cloud, and the rivers and springs dried up, till there was only one small pool left for everyone to drink from.

Who acts: rain, one small pool · What happens: fall, accustom, pass, dry up, be, leave · To what, where: rivers, one small pool

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, one small pool), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 inches	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 three	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 two	conj
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 inches	nummod
7	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 passed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 rain	case
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inches	nmod
10	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 rain	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 accustomed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 accustomed	nsubj:pass
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 accustomed	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 accustomed	aux:pass
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 accustomed	advmod
16	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 falling	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 accustomed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 month	punct
19	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rain	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 month	case
21	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 month	nmod
22	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	without	without	ADP	_	25 cloud	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cloud	det
25	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dried	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rivers	det
29	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dried	nsubj:pass
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 springs	cc
31	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rivers	conj
32	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 passed	parataxis
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 dried	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 was	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dried	conj
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 one	advmod
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 pool	nummod
40	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pool	amod
41	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
42	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 pool	acl
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 everyone	case
44	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	42 left	obl:agent
45	to	to	PART	_	46 drink	mark
46	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 everyone	acl
47	from	from	ADP	_	46 drink	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	rain and month after month not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accustom	past · passive				all property	tree rules
3	pass	past				instead hundred inches of rain and month after month; without a cloud	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dry up	participle · passive		the rivers and springs			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	be	past	one small pool		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	participle		one small pool not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	drink	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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