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title: They bored holes in the deep declivity, and the splashing rain and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 25

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:39:25
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bored	bore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	declivity	declivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	splashing	splashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	crumbled	crumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	drummer	drummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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