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title: The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the cler… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds. Who acts: drops, that. A sentence of «Andersen's
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 77

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The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.

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**Who acts:** drops, that · **What happens:** splash up, think, throw up, be, hurl · **To what, where:** drops, single drop, we, clouds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (drops, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:8:77
# text = The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	splashed	splash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ephemera	ephemera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	45	case	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
52	above	above	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **splash up** | participle |  | the drops of water *not said here* |  |  |  | to the green leafy roof | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the drops of water |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **throw up** | past · passive |  |  |  | a single drop |  | of the million of ephemera; to a height; as us | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: which=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for drops's size; doubtless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurl** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | we |  | the clouds |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme above cloud=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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