The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 15
He did not know his way, and, to make matters worse, it began to thunder, and the rain poured down.
Who acts: two, way, rain · What happens: not know, make, begin, pour down · To what, where: way, matters, thunder
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, way, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 12 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 thunder | mark |
| 18 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 poured | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 poured | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rain | det |
| 22 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 poured | nsubj |
| 23 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | parataxis |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 poured | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | two | two's way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | matters | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | way | thunder | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pour down | past | the rain | down property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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