Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 53

Just then a drop fell upon the lamp, from the roof of the house, but the drop explained that he was a gift from those gray clouds, and perhaps the best of all gifts. "

Who acts: drop · What happens: fall, explain, be · To what, where: roof, gift, gray clouds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fell	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drop	det
4	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 lamp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roof	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 roof	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roof	det
12	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roof	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 explained	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 explained	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 drop	det
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 explained	nsubj
20	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 gift	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gift	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gift	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gift	det
25	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 explained	ccomp
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 clouds	case
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 clouds	det
28	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clouds	compound
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gift	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 best	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 best	cc
32	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 best	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 best	det
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 explained	ccomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 gifts	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 gifts	det
37	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 best	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a drop		the roof of the house	then	upon the lamp	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon lamp=Location
2	explain speech: assert	past	the drop					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	drop	a gift	that gray clouds			tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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