--- title: When they came to the spot where lay the dead bird, the mole pushed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When they came to the spot where lay the dead bird, the mole pushed his broad nose through the ceiling, the earth gave way, so that there was a large hole, and the daylight shone into the passage. Who acts: birds, mole, earth, daylight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/85/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/) / 85 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 85 When they came to the spot where lay the dead bird, the mole pushed his broad nose through the ceiling, the earth gave way, so that there was a large hole, and the daylight shone into the passage. **Who acts:** birds, mole, earth, daylight · **What happens:** come, lay, push, give, be, shine · **To what, where:** spot, dead bird, broad nose, ceiling, way, large hole This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, mole, earth, daylight), 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:pg27200:79:85 # text = When they came to the spot where lay the dead bird, the mole pushed his broad nose through the ceiling, the earth gave way, so that there was a large hole, and the daylight shone into the passage. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 31 mark _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | birds *= bird* | | | the spot | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lay** | present | | the dead bird | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Result | | 3 | **push** | past | the mole | neighbor's broad nose | | the ceiling | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nose=Theme through ceiling=Trajectory | | 4 | **give** | past | the earth | way | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | | a large hole | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shine** | past | the daylight | | | the passage | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/86/) - ↑ back to [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/)