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title: One man dug a hole in the earth and threw in his whole bushel of pot… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 40

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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:pg27200:206:40
# text = 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.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	conj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
47	down	down	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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.

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**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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