The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 82

The unhappy lover stooped down with a sigh, and dipping his finger in the water let fall a drop on the sand.

Who acts: unhappy lover · What happens: stoop down, dip, let, fall · To what, where: unhappy lover, finger, water, drop, sand

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (unhappy lover), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lover	det
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lover	amod
3	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	nsubj
4	stooped	stoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lover	acl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 stooped	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sigh	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sigh	det
8	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stooped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
11	dipping	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 let	csubj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finger	nmod:poss
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dipping	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dipping	obl
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drop	det
20	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 sand	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sand	det
23	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop down	participle		the unhappy lover not said here		with a sigh	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dip	gerund		Prince's finger	the water		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in water=Trajectory
3	let	past	the unhappy lover				tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	the unhappy lover not said here	a drop	the sand		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient drop=Result

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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