Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 5
A few large drops of blood fell upon one of his sleeves.
Who acts: few large drops · What happens: fall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (few large 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drops | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drops | amod |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drops | amod |
| 4 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drops | nmod |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sleeves | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a few large drops of blood | upon one of sea's sleeves | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon one=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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