Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 132
How little she thought that this was the very same bottle which her friend had thrown aloft in her honor, on that happy day of rejoicing, in the green wood, in her youthful days.
Who acts: maid, this · What happens: think, be, throw, honor · To what, where: little, same bottle, honor · 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 (maid, this), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 little | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 bottle | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 bottle | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bottle | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottle | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 same | advmod |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bottle | amod |
| 11 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrown | aux |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thrown | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 honor | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 honor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 day | det |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rejoicing | case |
| 27 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wood | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 wood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wood | det |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wood | amod |
| 32 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 days | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 days | nmod:poss |
| 36 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 days | amod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thrown | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | maid | little | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the same bottle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the same bottle | maid's honor | day | in the green wood; aloft property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in honor=Destination | ||
| 4 | honor | maid | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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