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title: I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torren… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torrents, the scavengers were before the house where I was in service, and I had come up with the dust, and remained standing at the door--it was dreadful weather--when just as I was there, the postman came and gave me a letter. Who acts:
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 57

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I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torrents, the scavengers were before the house where I was in service, and I had come up with the dust, and remained standing at the door--it was dreadful weather--when just as I was there, the postman came and gave me a letter.

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**Who acts:** I, rain, scavengers, postman · **What happens:** remember, pour down, be, come up, remain, stand · **To what, where:** torrents, service, door, dreadful weather, letter, me

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rain, scavengers, postman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:17:57
# text = I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torrents, the scavengers were before the house where I was in service, and I had come up with the dust, and remained standing at the door--it was dreadful weather--when just as I was there, the postman came and gave me a letter.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scavengers	scavenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
33	up	up	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
40	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	xcomp	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
51	just	just	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	postman	postman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
59	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	parataxis	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	conj	_	_
62	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	iobj	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | I |  |  |  | day | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pour down** | past · progressive | the rain |  |  | torrents |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | the scavengers |  |  |  | before the house |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | I |  |  | service |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come up** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with the dust | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **remain** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stand** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 8 | **is a** | past | rain | dreadful weather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **come** | past | the postman |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **give** | past | the postman *not said here* | a letter | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient letter=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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