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title: "There come the drops," said the mother; "they are trickling down th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "There come the drops," said the mother; "they are trickling down the stalks. Who acts: drops, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 18

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"There come the drops," said the mother; "they are trickling down the stalks.

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**Who acts:** drops, mother · **What happens:** come, say, trickle down · **To what, where:** stalks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drops, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:3587`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:48:18
# text = "There come the drops," said the mother; "they are trickling down the stalks.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	There	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	trickling	trickle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the drops |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **trickle down** *in a quote* | present · progressive | drops *= drop* | the stalks |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stalk=Source |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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