Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 11

The little people who now play on that spot know nothing of the old tale, else would they fancy they heard a child crying deep below the earth, and the dewdrops on each blade of grass would be to them tears of woe.

Who acts: little people, people, child, dewdrops · What happens: play, know, fancy, hear, cry, be · To what, where: spot, nothing, child, earth, tears

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little people, people, child, dewdrops), 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	3 people	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 know	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 play	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 play	advmod
6	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 people	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 spot	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 spot	det
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obl
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 know	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 tale	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tale	amod
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fancy	punct
17	else	else	ADV	_	20 fancy	advmod
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fancy	aux
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fancy	nsubj
20	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	parataxis
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fancy	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
25	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 child	acl
26	deep	deep	ADV	_	25 crying	advmod
27	below	below	ADP	_	29 earth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earth	det
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crying	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tears	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 tears	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dewdrops	det
33	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 tears	nsubj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 blade	case
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 blade	det
36	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dewdrops	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 grass	case
38	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 blade	nmod
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 tears	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 tears	cop
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 be	obl
43	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 know	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 woe	case
45	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tears	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	the little people		that spot	now		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	the little people	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	fancy	would	people				else property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	hear	past	people	a child				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	cry speech: express	gerund	a child not said here		the earth		deep property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below earth=Location
6	is a	would	the dewdrops on each blade of grass	tears			of woe	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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