Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 86

“There falls another star,” said he: “but what does it matter; there are always enough left.

Who acts: watchman · What happens: fall, say, matter, be, leave · To what, where: star · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman), 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	_	3 falls	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 falls	expl
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 star	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 falls	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 falls	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 matter	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 matter	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 matter	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 matter	obj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 matter	aux
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 matter	expl
16	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 are	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 are	expl
19	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 matter	parataxis
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 are	advmod
21	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 left	advmod
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 are	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall in a quote	present		another star	there		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient star=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	watchman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	matter in a quote	present · do-support		star			tree rules
4	be in a quote	present			there	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave in a quote	participle				enough property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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: «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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