Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 101
For very joy, it felt ready to jump out of people's hands, and scarcely noticed that its cork had been drawn, and its contents emptied out, till it found itself carried to a cellar, to be left there and forgotten. "
Who acts: language, contents · What happens: feel, jump out, notice, draw, empty out, find · To what, where: hands, cork, language, cellar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language, contents), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 joy | advmod |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 jump | mark |
| 9 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 people | case |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 jump | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 noticed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 noticed | cc |
| 17 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 18 noticed | advmod |
| 18 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 drawn | mark |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cork | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drawn | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 drawn | aux:pass |
| 24 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 noticed | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 emptied | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 emptied | cc |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 contents | nmod:poss |
| 28 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 emptied | nsubj |
| 29 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 felt | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 emptied | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 found | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 emptied | parataxis |
| 35 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 found | obj |
| 36 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 found | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 cellar | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 cellar | det |
| 39 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carried | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 left | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 left | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 left | aux:pass |
| 43 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 found | conj |
| 44 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 left | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 forgotten | cc |
| 46 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 left | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | language | for joy; ready property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | jump out | to-infinitive | language not said here | people's hands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | language not said here | scarcely property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | draw | past · perfect · passive | language's cork | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | empty out | participle | language's contents | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 6 | find | past | language | language | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent itself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry | participle | language not said here | a cellar | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to cellar=Destination | ||||
| 8 | leave | to-infinitive · passive | language not said here | there | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 9 | forget | participle | language not said here | tree rules |
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.
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