Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 15

"I must give them color, that they may be seen more plainly," said he; and he poured something like a little drop of red wine into the drop of water, but it was witches' blood from the lobes of the ear, the finest kind, at ninepence a drop.

Who acts: Krabble, color · What happens: give, see, say, pour, be · To what, where: color, thousands, something, drop, blood, lobes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Krabble, color), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 seen	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 give	advcl
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 plainly	advmod
14	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	12 seen	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 poured	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 poured	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 poured	nsubj
22	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 poured	obj
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 drop	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 drop	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 drop	amod
27	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 wine	case
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wine	amod
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drop	nmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 drop	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 drop	det
33	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drop	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 blood	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 blood	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 blood	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 blood	cop
40	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 blood	nmod:poss
41	'	's	PART	_	40 witches	case
42	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	parataxis
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 lobes	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 lobes	det
45	lobes	lobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 blood	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 ear	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ear	det
48	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lobes	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 kind	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 kind	det
51	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	52 kind	amod
52	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 blood	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ninepence	punct
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 ninepence	case
55	ninepence	ninepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	obl
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 drop	det
57	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ninepence	nmod:unmarked
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	must	Krabble	color	thousands = thousand			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient color=Theme
2	see in a quote	may · passive		thousands = thousand			plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Krabble					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pour	past	Krabble	something		the drop of water	like a little drop of red wine; at ninepence a drop	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme into drop=Destination
5	is a	past	color	witches's blood and the finest kind		the lobes of the ear		tree rules

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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