Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 126
Then the ropes which held it were cut through, and the aerial ship rose in the air with the aeronaut and the basket containing the bottle and the rabbit, while the music sounded and all the people shouted "Hurrah."
Who acts: ropes, aerial ship, basket, music, people · What happens: hold, cut, rise, contain, sound, shout · To what, where: more, ropes, air, bottle, Hurrah
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 (ropes, aerial ship, basket, music), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 cut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ropes | det |
| 3 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ropes | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | obj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | aux:pass |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADV | _ | 8 cut | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rose | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 13 | aerial | aerial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ship | amod |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 aeronaut | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 aeronaut | det |
| 21 | aeronaut | aeronaut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 basket | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 basket | det |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 aeronaut | conj |
| 25 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 basket | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bottle | det |
| 27 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 containing | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rabbit | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rabbit | det |
| 30 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bottle | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sounded | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 sounded | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 music | det |
| 34 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sounded | nsubj |
| 35 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rose | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shouted | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 people | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 people | det |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 shouted | nsubj |
| 40 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sounded | conj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Hurrah | punct |
| 42 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 shouted | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the ropes | more | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past · passive | the ropes | then | through property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | rise | past | the aerial ship | the air | with the aeronaut and the basket | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 4 | contain | gerund | the basket not said here | the bottle and the rabbit | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bottle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sound | past | the music | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | shout speech: express | past | all people | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
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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