Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 40

One man dug a hole in the earth and threw in his whole bushel of potatoes; another put one potato here and another there in the ground, and expected that each was to come up a perfect tree, from which he might shake down potatoes.

Who acts: One man, another, each, man · What happens: dig, throw, put, expect, come up, shake down · To what, where: hole, earth, whole bushel, one potato, ground, perfect tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One man, another, each, man), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 man	nummod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 bushel	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bushel	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bushel	amod
14	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 potatoes	case
16	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bushel	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
18	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 potato	nummod
21	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 put	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 another	cc
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 put	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 put	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 expected	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 expected	cc
31	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 come	mark
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 come	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
35	to	to	PART	_	36 come	mark
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 expected	ccomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 come	compound:prt
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 tree	det
39	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tree	amod
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 shake	punct
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 which	case
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 shake	obl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 shake	nsubj
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 shake	aux
46	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 come	conj
47	down	down	ADP	_	46 shake	compound:prt
48	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shake	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dig	past	One man	a hole	the earth	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in earth=Location
2	throw	past	One man not said here		man's whole bushel of potatoes	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bushel=Destination
3	put	past	another	one potato	the ground; here; there	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent potato=Theme in ground=Destination
4	expect	past	One man not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	come up not said to happen	past	each	a perfect tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
6	shake down	might	man	potatoes		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent potato=Theme from which=Trajectory

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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