Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 114
Close before the bottle passed a single pair, like the bridal pair--the mate and the furrier's daughter--who had so long ago wandered in the wood.
Who acts: bottle, bridal pair · What happens: pass, have, wander · To what, where: single pair, wood
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 (bottle, bridal pair), 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 passed | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pair | amod |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pair | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 pair | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pair | det |
| 12 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pair | amod |
| 13 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 mate | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mate | det |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pair | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 daughter | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 furrier | det |
| 19 | furrier | furrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 furrier | case |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pair | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pair | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 long | advmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 ago | advmod |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 28 wandered | advmod |
| 28 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wandered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the bottle | a single pair | like the bridal pair and the mate and the furrier's daughter; close property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pair=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have | past | the bridal pair and the mate and the furrier's daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | the bridal pair and the mate and the furrier's daughter not said here | the wood | ago property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=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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