Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 119
But she did not recognize the bottle, neither did the bottle notice the old maid.
Who acts: maid, bottle · What happens: not recognize, do, notice · To what, where: bottle, old maid
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 (maid, bottle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 recognize | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognize | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognize | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 recognize | advmod |
| 5 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recognize | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 did | cc:preconj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognize | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottle | det |
| 12 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 notice | nsubj |
| 13 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maid | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maid | amod |
| 16 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 notice | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not recognize | past · do-support | maid | the bottle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | maid not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | notice | present | the bottle | the old maid | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus |
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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