The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 55

“But the storm grew worse and worse, and the rain fell in torrents, and little Hans could not see where he was going, or keep up with the horse.

Who acts: storm, rain, little Hans · What happens: grow, fall, not see, go, keep up · To what, where: torrents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, rain, little Hans), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 grew	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worse	cc
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 worse	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rain	det
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 torrents	case
15	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Hans	amod
19	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fell	conj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 going	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 see	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 keep	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 keep	cc
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 keep	compound:prt
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 horse	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horse	det
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	past	the storm		bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall in a quote	past	the rain	torrents		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location
3	not see in a quote	could	little Hans			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go in a quote	past · progressive	rain			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep up in a quote	infinitive	little Hans not said here		with the horse	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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