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title: Sometimes the dew-drops would roll away, and then they fell down bet… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the dew-drops would roll away, and then they fell down between the stems of the long grass, and caused a great deal of laughing and noise among the other little people. Who acts: dew drops, drops, great deal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 74

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Sometimes the dew-drops would roll away, and then they fell down between the stems of the long grass, and caused a great deal of laughing and noise among the other little people.

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**Who acts:** dew drops, drops, great deal · **What happens:** roll away, fall down, cause, laugh, stem · **To what, where:** stems, great deal, long grass

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. 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, drops, great deal), 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:pg27200:196:74
# text = Sometimes the dew-drops would roll away, and then they fell down between the stems of the long grass, and caused a great deal of laughing and noise among the other little people.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll away** | would | the dew drops |  |  |  |  | away, sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall down** | past | drops *= drop* |  |  | the stems of the long grass | then | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between stem=Location |
| 3 | **cause** | past | drops *= drop* *not said here* | a great deal and noise |  |  |  | among the other little people | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition deal=Patient |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | a great deal and noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stem** |  |  | the long grass |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=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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