Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 146

The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge.

Who acts: dew drops, leaf, sloes · What happens: fall, drop, be, set · To what, where: leaf, sloe thorn, trees, teeth, edge

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew drops, leaf, sloes), 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	4 drops	det
2	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drops	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dew	punct
4	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaf	punct
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 dropped	mark
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dropped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thorn	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thorn	det
18	sloe	sloe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thorn	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sloe	punct
20	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 thorn	advmod
22	still	still	ADV	_	24 fruit	advmod
23	bore	bore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fruit	amod
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thorn	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sour	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 sour	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sloes	det
28	sloes	sloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sour	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sour	cop
30	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dropped	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
33	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 teeth	det
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 set	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 edge	case
37	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the dew drops	leaf		like water	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop	past	leaf	the sloe thorn bore fruit	the trees		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
3	is	past	the sloes			sour property	tree rules
4	set	past	the dew drops not said here	the teeth	edge		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme on edge=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: «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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