The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 32
Soon it began to drizzle; then the drops came faster, and there was a regular down-pour.
Who acts: notice, drops, regular down pour · What happens: begin, drizzle, come, be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notice, drops, regular down pour), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 drizzle | mark |
| 5 | drizzle | drizzle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drops | det |
| 9 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pour | det |
| 17 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pour | amod |
| 18 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pour | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 down | punct |
| 20 | pour | pour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | notice | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | drizzle | to-infinitive | notice not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the drops | then | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | be | past | a regular down pour | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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