Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 5

On the top of all this the rain came pelting down wherever there was a clearing, and the cold March wind tore through the trees.

Who acts: rain, clearing · What happens: come, pelt down, be · To what, where: cold March wind tore, top

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, clearing), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 top	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 this	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 top	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	pelting	pelt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 came	xcomp
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 pelting	advmod
12	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	14 was	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pelting	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 clearing	det
16	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tore	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tore	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tore	det
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tore	amod
21	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tore	compound
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tore	compound
23	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 trees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tore	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the rain	the cold March wind tore through the trees	the top of this		tree rules
2	pelt down	gerund	the rain not said here			down property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	be	past	a clearing		there	wherever property	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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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