Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 104
For many long years he remained in the cellar, till at last some people came to carry away the bottles, and ours amongst the number.
Who acts: water, last · What happens: remain, come, carry away · To what, where: ours, cellar, bottles
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 (water, last), 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 | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remained | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cellar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cellar | det |
| 9 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | nsubj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 last | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remained | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADP | _ | 18 carry | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottles | det |
| 21 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ours | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ours | cc |
| 24 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 remained | obl |
| 25 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 27 number | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 number | det |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ours | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | water | ours | the cellar | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location | ||
| 2 | come | past | last | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry away | to-infinitive | last not said here | the bottles | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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.
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