Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 14

The little bird sang his own song merrily; in the street below there was driving and running to and fro, every one thought of his own affairs, or perhaps of nothing at all; but the bottle neck thought deeply.

Who acts: little bird, bottle neck, bird · What happens: sing, drive, run, fro, think · To what, where: own song, one thought, own affairs

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 (little bird, bottle neck, bird), 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	3 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 song	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
8	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 driving	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	obl
13	below	below	ADV	_	12 street	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 driving	aux
16	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sang	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 running	cc
18	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 driving	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 running	fixed
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fro	cc
21	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 running	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 thought	det
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thought	nummod
25	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 driving	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 affairs	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 affairs	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 affairs	amod
29	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thought	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nothing	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 nothing	cc
32	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 nothing	advmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 affairs	appos
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 nothing	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 thought	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 thought	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 neck	det
40	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 neck	compound
41	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thought	nsubj
42	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	conj
43	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	42 thought	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the little bird	bird's own song	merrily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	drive	past · progressive	the little bird not said here	every one thought of bird's own affairs		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	run	gerund	the little bird not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive	the little bird not said here			tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	the bottle neck		deeply property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing		bird			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	think			bird's own affairs		nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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