Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 110

In the borders were placed bottles, each containing a light, and among them the bottle with which we are acquainted, and whose fate it was, one day, to be only a bottle neck, and to serve as a water-glass to a bird's-cage.

Who acts: each, we · What happens: place, be, contain, serve · To what, where: placed bottles, borders, light, bottle neck

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 (each, we), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 borders	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 borders	det
3	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bottles	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bottles	cop
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bottles	amod
6	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 containing	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 containing	nsubj
9	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bottles	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 containing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 them	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 them	cc
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bottles	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bottle	det
17	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 them	appos
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 acquainted	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 acquainted	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 acquainted	cop
22	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bottle	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fate	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fate	cc
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 fate	nmod:poss
26	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 acquainted	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fate	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 day	punct
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 day	nummod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fate	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 neck	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	38 neck	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 neck	cop
35	only	only	ADV	_	38 neck	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 neck	det
37	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 neck	compound
38	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fate	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 serve	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 serve	cc
41	to	to	PART	_	42 serve	mark
42	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 acquainted	parataxis
43	as	as	ADP	_	47 glass	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 glass	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 glass	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 water	punct
47	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 serve	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	52 cage	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 cage	det
50	bird's	bird's	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 cage	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 bird's	punct
52	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 glass	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bottles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	participle					vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		placed bottles	the borders		tree rules
3	contain	gerund	each	a light			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot light=Theme
4	is	present	we			with the bottle; acquainted property	tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	we not said here	a bottle neck			tree rules
6	serve	to-infinitive				as a water glass to a bird's cage	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as glass=Attribute

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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