Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 32

Tears of sorrow rolled down their cheeks, and fell in heavy drops on the floor, but not a word was spoken.

Who acts: Tears · What happens: roll down, fall, speak · To what, where: cheeks, heavy drops, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tears), 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	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rolled	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 sorrow	case
3	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tears	nmod
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 rolled	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cheeks	nmod:poss
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rolled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 drops	case
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 drops	amod
13	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fell	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drops	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spoken	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 spoken	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 word	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spoken	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoken	aux:pass
23	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fell	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	roll down	participle	Tears of sorrow	Tears's cheeks		vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme
2	fall	past	Tears of sorrow not said here		heavy drops on the floor	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in drop=Location
3	speak speech: other	past · passive		a word		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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