Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 133

The bottle had no time to think, when raised so suddenly; and before it was aware, it reached the highest point it had ever attained in its life.

Who acts: bottle, wood, highest point · What happens: have, think, raise, be, reach, attain · To what, where: highest point, wood, life · 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 (bottle, wood, highest point), 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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 raised	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 raised	advmod
10	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 think	ccomp
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 suddenly	advmod
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 raised	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 reached	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reached	cc
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 aware	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 aware	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 aware	cop
18	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reached	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 aware	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	nsubj
21	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 point	det
23	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 point	amod
24	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reached	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 attained	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 attained	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 attained	advmod
28	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 point	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 life	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attained	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the bottle			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the bottle not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	raise	participle					suddenly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	wood				aware property	tree rules
5	reach	past	wood	the highest point				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme
6	attain	past · perfect · passive	the highest point not said here	wood	wood's life	ever		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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