The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 102

Then she stood still and wept; the Swineherd was scolding, and the rain was streaming down.

Who acts: One, Swineherd, rain · What happens: stand, weep, scold, stream down

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Swineherd, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 scolding	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Swineherd	det
9	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scolding	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 scolding	aux
11	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 streaming	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 streaming	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rain	det
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 streaming	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 streaming	aux
17	streaming	stream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 scolding	conj
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 streaming	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	One	then; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	One not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scold	past · progressive	the Swineherd			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stream down	past · progressive	the rain		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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