Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 127
"This is a wonderful journey up into the air," thought the bottle; "it is a new way of sailing, and here, at least, there is no fear of striking against anything."
Who acts: This, wonderful journey, journey, new way, fear · What happens: be, think, strike · To what, where: wonderful journey, air, bottle, new way, fear, anything · 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 (This, wonderful journey, journey, new way), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 journey | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 journey | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 journey | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 journey | amod |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 air | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 journey | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 journey | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 journey | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottle | det |
| 15 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 way | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fear | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sailing | case |
| 24 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 here | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 here | cc |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 way | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 is | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 least | case |
| 30 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 is | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 least | punct |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 is | expl |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fear | cop |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 fear | det |
| 35 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 striking | mark |
| 37 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 fear | acl |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 39 anything | case |
| 39 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 striking | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 fear | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a wonderful journey | the air | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a wonderful journey | the bottle | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bottle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | journey | a new way | here | of sailing | tree rules | ||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a new way | no fear | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | strike in a quote | gerund | no fear not said here | anything | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against anything=Location |
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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