Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 61

Sure enough, there he lay on an upper shelf of a vapor bath, still in his evening costume, with his boots and goloshes on, and the hot drops from the ceiling falling on his face. "

Who acts: rain, hot drops · What happens: lie, fall · To what, where: upper shelf, face

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, hot drops), 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	Sure	sure	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Sure	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sure	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 lay	expl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 shelf	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shelf	det
9	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shelf	amod
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 bath	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bath	det
13	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bath	compound
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shelf	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 costume	punct
16	still	still	ADV	_	20 costume	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 costume	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 costume	nmod:poss
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 costume	compound
20	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boots	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 boots	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 boots	nmod:poss
24	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 costume	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 goloshes	cc
26	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 boots	conj
27	on	on	ADV	_	24 boots	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 falling	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 falling	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drops	det
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 drops	amod
32	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 falling	nsubj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 ceiling	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ceiling	det
35	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drops	nmod
36	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lay	advcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 face	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 face	nmod:poss
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 falling	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 falling	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	rain			a upper shelf of a vapor bath; there		in rain's evening costume and rain's boots and goloshes; sure property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location
2	fall	gerund	the hot drops from the ceiling			rain's face			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location

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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