Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 125

The bottle, however, knew nothing of the "up," or the "down;" he saw only that the balloon was swelling larger and larger till it could swell no more, and began to rise and be restless.

Who acts: bottle, rabbit, balloon · What happens: know, see, swell, begin, rise, be · To what, where: nothing, more

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, rabbit, balloon), 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	6 knew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bottle	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 knew	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 up	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 up	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	7 nothing	compound
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 down	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 down	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 down	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 down	det
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 down	punct
17	down	down	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	parataxis
22	only	only	ADV	_	27 swelling	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 swelling	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 balloon	det
25	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swelling	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swelling	aux
27	swelling	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 saw	xcomp
28	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 swelling	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 larger	cc
30	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 larger	conj
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 swell	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 swell	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 swell	aux
34	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 swelling	advcl
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 more	advmod
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 swell	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 rise	mark
41	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 restless	cc
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 restless	cop
44	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rise	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the bottle	nothing	down, however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	see	past	rabbit			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	swell	past · progressive	the balloon		large property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	swell	could	balloon	more		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient more=Extent
5	begin	past	rabbit not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	rise	to-infinitive	rabbit not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	infinitive	rabbit not said here		restless property	tree rules

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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