The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 51

But while these thoughts passed through her mind, a fearful rain fell, such as no man remembered before, and rose till the mares were standing up to their knees in water.

Who acts: thoughts, fearful rain, mares, princess · What happens: pass, fall, remember, rise, stand up, mind · To what, where: mind, man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, fearful rain, mares, princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 passed	mark
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 thoughts	det
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	advcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 mind	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rain	det
11	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rain	amod
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 man	case
16	as	as	ADP	_	15 such	fixed
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
19	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 man	acl
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 remembered	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 standing	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mares	det
26	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 standing	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 standing	aux
28	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rose	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 standing	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 knees	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 knees	nmod:poss
32	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 standing	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 water	case
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knees	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	this thoughts		princess's mind		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location
2	fall	past	a fearful rain			such no man	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember	participle		no man not said here		before property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	rise	past	a fearful rain not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand up	past · progressive	the mares			to mares's knees in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	mind		princess				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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