The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 6
One night there was a dreadful storm; it thundered and lightened and the rain streamed down in torrents.
Who acts: dreadful storm, storm, rain · What happens: be, thunder, lighten, stream down · To what, where: torrents
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful storm, storm, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 6 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 storm | amod |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 thundered | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thundered | nsubj |
| 10 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lightened | cc |
| 12 | lightened | lighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thundered | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 streamed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rain | det |
| 15 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 streamed | nsubj |
| 16 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lightened | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 streamed | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 torrents | case |
| 19 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 streamed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a dreadful storm | there | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | thunder | past | storm | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lighten | participle | storm not said here | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | stream down | participle | the rain | torrents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/44/6/