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title: The dew of favor fell from above, so no one was surprised after all… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dew of favor fell from above, so no one was surprised after all that he should become a Privy Councillor, and Emily a Privy Councillor's lady. Who acts: dew, General. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 118

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The dew of favor fell from above, so no one was surprised after all that he should become a Privy Councillor, and Emily a Privy Councillor's lady.

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**Who acts:** dew, General · **What happens:** fall, surprise, become · **To what, where:** Emily lady, one, Privy Councillor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew, General), 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:pg27200:148:118
# text = The dew of favor fell from above, so no one was surprised after all that he should become a Privy Councillor, and Emily a Privy Councillor's lady.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	above	above	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Privy	privy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Councillor	councillor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Privy	Privy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the dew of favor | a Privy Councillor's Emily lady |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **surprise** | past · passive |  | no one |  |  | after all |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **become** | should | General | a Privy Councillor |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «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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