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title: The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the tree… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge. Who acts: dew drops, leaf, sloes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 146

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The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge.

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**Who acts:** dew drops, leaf, sloes · **What happens:** fall, drop, be, set · **To what, where:** leaf, sloe thorn, trees, teeth, edge

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew drops, leaf, sloes), 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:pg27200:172:146
# text = The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	sloe	sloe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	bore	bore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sloes	sloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the dew drops | leaf |  |  |  | like water | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past | leaf | the sloe thorn  bore fruit |  | the trees |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sloes |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | past | the dew drops *not said here* | the teeth |  | edge |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme on edge=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:** «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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