Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 58

Then she dug up the earth, as deep as she was able, that she might prepare a grave for them.

Who acts: animal · What happens: dig up, be, prepare · To what, where: earth, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dug	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 dug	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deep	punct
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 deep	advmod
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dug	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 able	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deep	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prepare	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 prepare	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 prepare	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 prepare	aux
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dug	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 grave	det
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prepare	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 prepare	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	animal	the earth	then		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
2	is	past	animal			able property	tree rules
3	prepare	might	animal	a grave		for hands = hand	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grave=Product for they=Beneficiary

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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