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title: The pitch-black clouds poured down their contents in still heavier t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The pitch-black clouds poured down their contents in still heavier torrents; not a creature was to be seen in the streets. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 33

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The pitch-black clouds poured down their contents in still heavier torrents; not a creature was to be seen in the streets.

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**What happens:** pour down, see · **To what, where:** black clouds, heavier torrents, creature, streets

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:7:33
# text = The pitch-black clouds poured down their contents in still heavier torrents; not a creature was to be seen in the streets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour down** | participle · passive |  | the black clouds |  | heavier torrents |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme contents=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | a creature |  | the streets |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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