Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 11
I have gone through a great deal in my time, when I come to recollect: I have been in the fire and in the water, I have been deep in the earth, and have mounted higher in the air than most other people, and now I am swinging here, outside a bird-cage, in the air and the sunshine.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, come, recollect, be, mount, swing · To what, where: great deal, fire, earth, air, bird cage
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 deal | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 time | nmod:poss |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 come | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 recollect | mark |
| 16 | recollect | recollect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 fire | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fire | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fire | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 fire | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 water | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fire | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 deep | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 deep | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 deep | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 deep | cop |
| 32 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 3 gone | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 earth | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deep | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mounted | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 mounted | cc |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 mounted | aux |
| 39 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | conj |
| 40 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 mounted | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 air | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 air | det |
| 43 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mounted | obl |
| 44 | than | than | ADP | _ | 47 people | case |
| 45 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 47 people | amod |
| 46 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 people | amod |
| 47 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 mounted | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 swinging | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 swinging | cc |
| 50 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 swinging | advmod |
| 51 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 swinging | nsubj |
| 52 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 swinging | aux |
| 53 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 mounted | advcl |
| 54 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 swinging | advmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 cage | punct |
| 56 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 60 cage | case |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 cage | det |
| 58 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 cage | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 bird | punct |
| 60 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 swinging | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 air | punct |
| 62 | in | in | ADP | _ | 64 air | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 air | det |
| 64 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 cage | appos |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 sunshine | cc |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 sunshine | det |
| 67 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 air | conj |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | I | a great deal in my time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through deal=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | recollect | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present · perfect | I | the fire and the water | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present · perfect | I | the earth | deep property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | mount | present · perfect | I not said here | the air | than most other people; high property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in air=Destination | |||
| 7 | swing | present · progressive | I | a bird cage; here | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme outside cage=Trajectory |
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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