Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 70

The water-drops spurted up among the green twigs, and the clerk thought of the millions of animalculae which were thrown into the air with every drop of water, at a height which must be the same to them as it would be to us if we were hurled beyond the clouds.

Who acts: water drops, height, air · What happens: spurt up, think, throw, be, hurl · To what, where: water drops, green twigs, animalculae, air, drops, we

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water drops, height, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drops	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drops	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thought	nsubj
5	spurted	spurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drops	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 spurted	compound:prt
7	among	among	ADP	_	10 twigs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 twigs	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 twigs	amod
10	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spurted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clerk	det
14	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 millions	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 millions	det
18	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thought	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 animalculae	case
20	animalculae	animalculae	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 millions	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 thrown	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thrown	aux:pass
23	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 animalculae	acl:relcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 air	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrown	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 drop	case
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 drop	det
29	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrown	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 water	case
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drop	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 height	punct
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 height	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 height	det
35	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	ccomp
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 same	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 same	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 same	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 same	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 height	acl:relcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 same	obl
43	as	as	ADP	_	48 us	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 us	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 us	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 us	cop
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 us	case
48	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 same	obl
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 hurled	mark
50	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 hurled	nsubj:pass
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 hurled	aux:pass
52	hurled	hurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 thought	ccomp
53	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	55 clouds	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 clouds	det
55	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hurled	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spurt up	participle		the water drops not said here		the green twigs		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme among twig=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	the water drops				of the millions of animalculae	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	throw	past · passive		animalculae			into the air result; with every drop of water	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into air=Result
4	is	must	a height		drops = drop		same property	tree rules
5	is	would	air				as us	tree rules
6	hurl a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		we		the clouds		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme beyond cloud=Destination

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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