Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 135

Then it began to descend much more rapidly than the rabbit had done, made somersaults in the air, and felt itself quite young and unfettered, although it was half full of wine.

Who acts: roof · What happens: begin, descend, do, make, feel, unfetter · To what, where: made somersaults, air, rabbit, roof

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 (roof), 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	3 began	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 descend	mark
5	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 rapidly	advmod
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	5 descend	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 done	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rabbit	det
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rapidly	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 somersaults	amod
16	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 descend	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 somersaults	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 felt	obj
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 young	advmod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unfettered	cc
27	unfettered	unfetter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 young	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 full	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	33 full	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 full	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 full	cop
32	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 full	advmod
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wine	case
35	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	roof			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	descend	to-infinitive	roof not said here	made somersaults	the air		rapidly property	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location somersault=Theme
3	do	past · perfect · passive		the rabbit				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	make	participle						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	feel	past		roof				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
6	unfetter	participle						tree rules
7	is	past	roof				of wine; full, half property	tree rules

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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