The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 50
‘For now,’ she thought, ‘the shower of golden rain will come.’
Who acts: girl, shower · What happens: think, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (girl, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 now | case |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shower | det |
| 11 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rain | case |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rain | amod |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shower | nmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | girl | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | future | the shower of golden rain | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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