Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 141

They went jumping and rolling about, till at last they fell into the court-yard, and were broken into still smaller pieces; only the neck of the bottle managed to keep whole, and it was broken off as clean as if it had been cut with a diamond.

Who acts: people, neck · What happens: go, jump, roll about, fall, break, manage · To what, where: last, smaller pieces, piece

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 (people, neck), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 went	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rolling	cc
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 jumping	conj
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 rolling	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 fell	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fell	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 yard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 yard	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 court	punct
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broken	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 broken	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 broken	aux:pass
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fell	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
23	still	still	ADV	_	25 pieces	advmod
24	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 pieces	amod
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 broken	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 managed	punct
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 neck	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 neck	det
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 managed	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bottle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bottle	det
32	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 neck	nmod
33	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 managed	xcomp
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 keep	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 broken	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 broken	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 broken	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 broken	aux:pass
41	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 broken	compound:prt
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 clean	case
44	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 broken	obl
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 cut	mark
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 cut	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 cut	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 cut	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 cut	aux:pass
50	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 broken	advcl
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 diamond	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 diamond	det
53	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cut	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	people				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	jump	gerund	people not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll about	gerund	people not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	people		last	into the court yard	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	break	past · passive				into smaller pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=Result
6	manage	past	the neck of the bottle				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	keep	to-infinitive	the neck of the bottle not said here			whole property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	break off	past · passive		piece		as clean	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	cut	past · perfect · passive		piece		with a diamond	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient with diamond=Instrument

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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