Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 18

"There come the drops," said the mother; "they are trickling down the stalks.

Who acts: drops, mother · What happens: come, say, trickle down · To what, where: stalks · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3587): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
2	There	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drops	det
5	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 trickling	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 trickling	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trickling	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 trickling	aux
15	trickling	trickle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 stalks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stalks	det
18	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trickling	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	the drops		there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	trickle down in a quote	present · progressive	drops = drop	the stalks		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stalk=Source

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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