Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 41

By-and-by an old woman came into the field, and, with a blunt knife without a handle, began to dig round the roots of some of the dandelion-plants, and pull them up.

Who acts: blunt knife · What happens: come, begin, dig, pull up · To what, where: field, children

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blunt knife), 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	By	by	ADP	_	8 woman	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woman	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knife	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 knife	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 knife	det
18	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 knife	amod
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 handle	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 handle	det
22	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knife	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knife	punct
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 dig	mark
26	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 roots	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roots	det
29	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dig	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 some	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 roots	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 plants	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 plants	det
34	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plants	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 dandelion	punct
36	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 some	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pull	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pull	cc
39	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dig	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pull	obj
41	up	up	ADP	_	39 pull	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past			the field	by a old woman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	a blunt knife without a handle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dig	to-infinitive	a blunt knife without a handle not said here			round the roots of some	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull up	infinitive	a blunt knife without a handle not said here	children = child			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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