Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 124
The rabbit was quite excited because he knew that he was to be taken up, and let down again in a parachute.
Who acts: rabbit · What happens: be, know, take up, let down · To what, where: rabbit, parachute · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rabbit), 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 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excited | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excited | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 excited | advmod |
| 5 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 excited | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 taken | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 excited | parataxis |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 let | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 parachute | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 parachute | det |
| 23 | parachute | parachute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rabbit | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | rabbit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take up | past · passive | rabbit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 4 | let down | infinitive | a parachute | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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