Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 25

They bored holes in the deep declivity, and the splashing rain and the thin mist came and crumbled and washed the names away, and the drummer's name also, and that of his little son.

Who acts: martens, splashing rain, drummer · What happens: bore, come, crumble, wash, name · To what, where: holes, deep declivity

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (martens, splashing rain, drummer), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bored	nsubj
2	bored	bore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bored	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 declivity	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 declivity	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 declivity	amod
7	declivity	declivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bored	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rain	det
11	splashing	splashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rain	compound
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mist	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mist	det
15	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mist	amod
16	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rain	conj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bored	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crumbled	cc
19	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 washed	cc
21	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 crumbled	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 names	det
23	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 away	obl:unmarked
24	away	away	ADV	_	21 washed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 name	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 name	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drummer	det
28	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 name	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 drummer	case
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bored	obl
31	also	also	ADV	_	30 name	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 son	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 son	cc
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 son	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 son	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 son	nmod:poss
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 son	amod
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bored	vocative
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bore	past	martens = marten	holes	the deep declivity	the drummer's name obl; drummer's little son vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer
2	come	past	the splashing rain and the thin mist				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crumble	past	the splashing rain and the thin mist not said here				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	wash	past	the splashing rain and the thin mist not said here			away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	name		the drummer				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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