Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 142

"That would make a capital bird's glass," said one of the cellar-men; but none of them had either a bird or a cage, and it was not to be expected they would provide one just because they had found a bottle neck that could be used as a glass.

Who acts: That, one, none, people · What happens: make, say, have, not expect, provide, find · To what, where: glass, bird, one, bottle neck · 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 (That, one, none, people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glass	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bird	case
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 men	det
16	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 men	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cellar	punct
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 had	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 none	nmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
25	either	either	CCONJ	_	27 bird	cc:preconj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 cage	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cage	det
30	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bird	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 expected	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 expected	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 expected	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 expected	aux:pass
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 expected	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	38 expected	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 expected	aux:pass
38	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 had	conj
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 provide	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 provide	aux
41	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 expected	parataxis
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 provide	obj
43	just	just	ADV	_	47 found	advmod
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 found	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 found	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 found	aux
47	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 provide	advcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 neck	det
49	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 neck	compound
50	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 found	obj
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 used	nsubj:pass
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 used	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 used	aux:pass
54	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 neck	acl:relcl
55	as	as	ADP	_	57 glass	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 glass	det
57	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 used	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	would	That	a capital bird's glass		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the cellar men			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	none	a bird or a cage		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
4	not expect	past · passive		glass		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	provide	would	people	one		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=Theme
6	find	past · perfect	people	a bottle neck		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Topic
7	use	could · passive		a bottle neck	as a glass	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as glass=Attribute

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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