Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 17
A drop of dew fell from the leaves upon the singer's grave.
Who acts: drop · What happens: fall · To what, where: leaves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drop | det |
| 2 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 dew | case |
| 4 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 leaves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leaves | det |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 grave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 singer | det |
| 11 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grave | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 singer | case |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a drop of dew | the leaves | upon the singer's grave | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon grave=Location |
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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