--- title: This bag she filled with buckwheat flour, and tied it round the prin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: This bag she filled with buckwheat flour, and tied it round the princess's neck; and then she cut a small hole in the bag, so that the flour might be scattered on the ground as the princess went along. Who acts: bag, queen, princess. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bag, queen, princess), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:193:91 # text = This bag she filled with buckwheat flour, and tied it round the princess's neck; and then she cut a small hole in the bag, so that the flour might be scattered on the ground as the princess went along. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 buckwheat buckwheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 round round ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 43 along along ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | this bag | | | | | with buckwheat flour | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flour=Instrument | | 2 | **tie** | past | this bag *not said here* | bag | | | | round the princess's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **cut** | past | queen | a small hole | | the bag | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product | | 4 | **scatter** | might · passive | | the flour | | the ground | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination | | 5 | **go along** | past | the princess | | | | | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/92/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/)