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title: He covered up the pot again with earth and twigs, and drove on into… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He covered up the pot again with earth and twigs, and drove on into the town, where he bought a live pike and a live hare in the market. Who acts: foot. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 13

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He covered up the pot again with earth and twigs, and drove on into the town, where he bought a live pike and a live hare in the market.

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**Who acts:** foot · **What happens:** cover up, drive, buy · **To what, where:** pot, town, live pike, market

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot), 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:pg641:16:13
# text = He covered up the pot again with earth and twigs, and drove on into the town, where he bought a live pike and a live hare in the market.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover up** | past | foot | the pot |  |  | again | with earth and twigs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Destination with earth=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | past | foot *not said here* |  |  | the town |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory |
| 3 | **buy** | past | foot | a live pike and a live hare |  | the market |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme |

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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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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