Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 4

And wherever it was clear the rain pelted down and the cold March wind howled along.

Who acts: rain, cold wind · What happens: be, pelt down, howl · To what, where: rain

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, cold wind), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 clear	cc
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	5 clear	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clear	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clear	cop
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clear	nsubj
8	pelted	pelt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rain	acl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 pelted	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 howled	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wind	amod
13	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wind	nmod:unmarked
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 howled	nsubj
15	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pelted	conj
16	along	along	ADV	_	15 howled	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rain		clear, wherever property	tree rules
2	pelt down	participle		the rain not said here		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	howl	past	the cold wind March		along property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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