Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 50

One star also fell in the midst of the land, fell upon Soro, a flower on the grave of Holberg, the thanks of the year from a great many--thanks for his charming plays!

Who acts: One star, Holberg · What happens: fall, play · To what, where: midst, Soro

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One star, Holberg), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 star	nummod
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 midst	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 midst	det
7	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 midst	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 Soro	case
14	Soro	Soro	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flower	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 flower	det
17	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Soro	appos
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 grave	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grave	det
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flower	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Holberg	case
22	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 grave	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thanks	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thanks	det
25	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Soro	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 year	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 year	det
28	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thanks	nmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	34 thanks	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 thanks	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thanks	amod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thanks	amod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 many	punct
34	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thanks	nmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 plays	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 plays	nmod:poss
37	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 plays	compound
38	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thanks	nmod
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	fall	past	One star	the midst of the land	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
2	fall	past	One star not said here	Soro	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon soro=Location
3	play		Holberg		nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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