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title: Sure enough, there he lay on an upper shelf of a vapor bath, still i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sure enough, there he lay on an upper shelf of a vapor bath, still in his evening costume, with his boots and goloshes on, and the hot drops from the ceiling falling on his face. " Who acts: rain, hot drops. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Momen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 61

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Sure enough, there he lay on an upper shelf of a vapor bath, still in his evening costume, with his boots and goloshes on, and the hot drops from the ceiling falling on his face. "

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**Who acts:** rain, hot drops · **What happens:** lie, fall · **To what, where:** upper shelf, face

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, hot 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:pg27200:43:61
# text = Sure enough, there he lay on an upper shelf of a vapor bath, still in his evening costume, with his boots and goloshes on, and the hot drops from the ceiling falling on his face. "
1	Sure	sure	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	costume	costume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | rain |  |  | a upper shelf of a vapor bath; there |  | in rain's evening costume and rain's boots and goloshes; sure *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | the hot drops from the ceiling |  |  | rain's face |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |

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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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