Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 68

The boy made a hole in the earth with his finger, and the little girl placed the pip in the hole, and then they both covered it over with earth.

Who acts: boy, little girl, boys · What happens: make, place, cover over · To what, where: hole, earth, pip

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 (boy, little girl, boys), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 finger	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 finger	nmod:poss
11	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 earth	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 placed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 placed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	nsubj
17	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pip	det
19	pip	pip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hole	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hole	det
22	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 covered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 covered	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 covered	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 covered	nsubj
27	both	both	ADV	_	28 covered	advmod
28	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 covered	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	28 covered	compound:prt
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 earth	case
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 covered	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the boy	a hole	the earth with tree's finger			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
2	place	past	the little girl	the pip	the hole			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pip=Theme in hole=Destination
3	cover over	past	boys = boy	earth		then	with earth; both property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with earth=Theme

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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