Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 77
The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
Who acts: drops, that · What happens: splash up, think, throw up, be, hurl · To what, where: drops, single drop, we, clouds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drops, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 drops | det |
| 2 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | nmod |
| 5 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drops | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 splashed | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roof | amod |
| 10 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roof | amod |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splashed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clerk | det |
| 15 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 million | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 million | det |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 thrown | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ephemera | case |
| 21 | ephemera | ephemera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 million | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 thrown | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 drop | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 drop | det |
| 25 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 drop | amod |
| 26 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thrown | obl |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 thrown | aux:pass |
| 28 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 thrown | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 height | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 height | det |
| 32 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thrown | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 doubtless | punct |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 doubtless | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 doubtless | cop |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 doubtless | mark |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 doubtless | amod |
| 38 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thrown | conj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 size | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 size | nmod:poss |
| 41 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 doubtless | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 us | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 45 us | case |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 as | fixed |
| 45 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 thrown | obl |
| 46 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 51 hurled | mark |
| 47 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 hurled | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 hurled | aux |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 hurled | mark |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 hurled | aux:pass |
| 51 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 thrown | advcl |
| 52 | above | above | ADP | _ | 54 clouds | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 clouds | det |
| 54 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 hurled | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splash up | participle | the drops of water not said here | to the green leafy roof | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the drops of water | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw up | past · passive | a single drop | of the million of ephemera; to a height; as us | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | for drops's size; doubtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hurl a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | we | the clouds | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme above cloud=Destination |
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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