Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 96

And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but with all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while the hot drops fell scalding from the ceiling on his face.

Who acts: sanctuary, hot drops · What happens: lie, fall, scald · To what, where: uppermost bank, ceiling

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: who acts (sanctuary, hot drops), 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 lay	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lay	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
8	uppermost	uppermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bank	amod
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 bath	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bath	det
12	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bath	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 vapor	punct
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 on	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 on	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 clothes	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 clothes	det:predet
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 clothes	nmod:poss
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 on	obl
21	on	on	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boots	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 boots	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 boots	nmod:poss
25	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 galoshes	cc
27	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 boots	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fell	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 fell	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drops	det
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 drops	amod
32	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
34	scalding	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 fell	xcomp
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 ceiling	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ceiling	det
37	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 scalding	obl
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 face	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 face	nmod:poss
40	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 scalding	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	sanctuary	the uppermost bank; there	in the vapor bath; in sanctuary's boots and galoshes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	fall	past	the hot drops			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	scald	gerund	the hot drops not said here	the ceiling	on sanctuary's face	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on face=Instrument

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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