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title: A gentle rain fell upon them from the sky, but they did not notice i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A gentle rain fell upon them from the sky, but they did not notice it, for the rain-drops were their own tears of joy. Who acts: gentle rain, violets, rain drops. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 83

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A gentle rain fell upon them from the sky, but they did not notice it, for the rain-drops were their own tears of joy.

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**Who acts:** gentle rain, violets, rain drops · **What happens:** fall, not notice, be · **To what, where:** sky, rain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle rain, violets, rain drops), 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:pg27200:214:83
# text = A gentle rain fell upon them from the sky, but they did not notice it, for the rain-drops were their own tears of joy.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a gentle rain |  |  | the sky |  | upon violets *= violet* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | violets *= violet* | rain |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the rain drops |  |  |  |  | for violets's own tears; of joy | tree rules |

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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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