Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 18
Only a dew-drop, only a tear, poured upon the earth, and vanished away!
Who acts: dew drop · What happens: pour, vanish away · To what, where: tear
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (dew 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 drop | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 drop | det |
| 3 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drop | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dew | punct |
| 5 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tear | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 tear | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tear | det |
| 9 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drop | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poured | punct |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tear | acl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanished | cc |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 vanished | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | participle | a tear not said here | upon the earth | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | vanish away | past | a dew drop and a tear | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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