Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 74

Sometimes the dew-drops would roll away, and then they fell down between the stems of the long grass, and caused a great deal of laughing and noise among the other little people.

Who acts: dew drops, drops, great deal · What happens: roll away, fall down, cause, laugh, stem · To what, where: stems, great deal, long grass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. 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, drops, great deal), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 roll	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drops	det
3	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 dew	punct
5	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roll	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	aux
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 fell	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 fell	advmod
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 stems	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stems	det
17	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 grass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grass	amod
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stems	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caused	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caused	cc
24	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 deal	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deal	amod
27	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caused	obj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 laughing	mark
29	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 deal	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 noise	cc
31	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deal	conj
32	among	among	ADP	_	36 people	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 caused	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll away	would	the dew drops				away, sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall down	past	drops = drop		the stems of the long grass	then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between stem=Location
3	cause	past	drops = drop not said here	a great deal and noise			among the other little people	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition deal=Patient
4	laugh	gerund	a great deal and noise not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stem			the long grass				nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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