Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 126

She was planting it herself with her little hands, and pressing down the earth with her fingers. "

Who acts: garden · What happens: plant, press down · To what, where: front, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 planting	aux
3	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planting	obj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 planting	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 hands	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hands	amod
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 planting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pressing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pressing	cc
12	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 planting	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pressing	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 fingers	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fingers	nmod:poss
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pressing	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planting	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 planting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past · progressive	garden	front				with garden's little hands; garden obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hand=Instrument
2	press down	gerund	garden not said here	the earth				with garden's fingers	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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