Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 67
Then they got a flower-pot, filled it with earth, and were soon both very busy and eager about it.
Who acts: children, both · What happens: get, fill, be · To what, where: flower pot, pot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 busy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 busy | cc |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 busy | cop |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 busy | advmod |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 busy | nsubj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 busy | advmod |
| 19 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 eager | cc |
| 21 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 busy | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eager | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | children = child | a flower pot | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fill | past | children = child not said here | pot | with earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with earth=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | past | both | busy, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | both not said here | about earth | tree rules |
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.
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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