Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 121
The bottle was taken from the garden, and again sent to a wine merchant, where it was once more filled with wine, and sold to an aeronaut, who was to make an ascent in his balloon on the following Sunday.
Who acts: aeronaut · What happens: take, send, fill, sell, be, follow · To what, where: bottle, garden, wine merchant, merchant, aeronaut, balloon
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 (aeronaut), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 14 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 merchant | compound |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 filled | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 filled | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 filled | aux:pass |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 filled | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 filled | advmod |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 merchant | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wine | case |
| 24 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sold | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sold | cc |
| 27 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 aeronaut | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 aeronaut | det |
| 30 | aeronaut | aeronaut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sold | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 make | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 make | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 make | mark |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 aeronaut | conj |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ascent | det |
| 37 | ascent | ascent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 balloon | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 balloon | nmod:poss |
| 40 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 Sunday | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Sunday | det |
| 43 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 Sunday | amod |
| 44 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 balloon | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the bottle | the garden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | send | participle | a wine merchant | again | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to merchant=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | merchant | with wine; once property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wine=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | sell | participle | a aeronaut | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to aeronaut=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | a aeronaut | pair's balloon on the following Sunday | make property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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