Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 37

It is said that rain-drops can make a hollow in the hardest stone, and the waves of the sea can smooth and round the rough edges of the rocks; so did the dew of mercy fall upon Helga, softening what was hard, and smoothing what was rough in her character.

Who acts: rain drops, waves, dew · What happens: say, make, smooth, round, do, fall · To what, where: power, rough edges, Helga, character, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain drops, waves, dew), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drops	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rain	punct
7	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hollow	det
11	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 stone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stone	det
14	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 stone	amod
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hollow	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 smooth	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smooth	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 waves	det
19	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smooth	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waves	nmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 smooth	aux
24	smooth	smooth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 round	cc
26	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 smooth	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 edges	det
28	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 edges	amod
29	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 round	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 rocks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rocks	det
32	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 edges	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 did	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 did	advmod
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dew	det
37	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 mercy	case
39	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dew	nmod
40	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 did	parataxis
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 Helga	case
42	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 softening	punct
44	softening	soften	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 fall	advcl
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 hard	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 hard	cop
47	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 softening	ccomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 smoothing	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 smoothing	cc
50	smoothing	smooth	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 softening	conj
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 rough	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 rough	cop
53	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 smoothing	ccomp
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 character	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 character	nmod:poss
56	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rough	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		power			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	make	can	rain drops			hollow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	smooth	can	the waves of the sea				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	round	infinitive	the waves of the sea not said here	the rough edges of the rocks			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent edge=Patient
5	do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	present	the dew of mercy		Helga		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon helga=Location
7	soften	gerund	the dew of mercy not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	is	past				hard property	tree rules
9	smooth	gerund	the dew of mercy not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	is	past			round's character	rough property	tree rules
11	wave			the sea			nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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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