Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 130

And she did see distinctly the aeronaut in the balloon, and how he let down the rabbit in the parachute, and then drank to the health of all the spectators in the wine from the bottle.

Who acts: maid, lantern · What happens: see, let down, drink · To what, where: aeronaut, balloon, rabbit, parachute

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 (maid, lantern), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 see	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	7 aeronaut	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 aeronaut	det
7	aeronaut	aeronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 balloon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 balloon	det
10	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 let	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 let	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rabbit	det
18	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 parachute	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parachute	det
21	parachute	parachute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drank	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drank	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 drank	advmod
25	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 let	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 health	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 health	det
28	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drank	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 spectators	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 spectators	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spectators	det
32	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 health	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 wine	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wine	det
35	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spectators	nmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 bottle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bottle	det
38	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wine	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	maid	the aeronaut	the balloon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aeronaut=Stimulus
2	let down	past	lantern	the rabbit	the parachute			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme
3	drink	past	lantern not said here			then	to the health of all spectators in the wine from the bottle	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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