Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 143

But the old maid who lived in the garret had a bird, and it really might be useful to her; so the bottle neck was provided with a cork, and taken up to her; and, as it often happens in life, the part that had been uppermost was now turned downwards, and it was filled with fresh water.

Who acts: old maid, garret, it, part · What happens: live, have, be, provide, take up, happen · To what, where: garret, bird, maid, bottle neck, life

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 (old maid, garret, it, part), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maid	amod
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 maid	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garret	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garret	det
9	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 useful	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 useful	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 useful	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	19 useful	advmod
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 useful	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 useful	cop
19	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 had	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 useful	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 provided	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	28 provided	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neck	det
25	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 neck	compound
26	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 provided	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 provided	aux:pass
28	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 had	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 cork	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cork	det
31	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 provided	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taken	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 taken	cc
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 provided	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 taken	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 taken	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 filled	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 filled	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 and	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 happens	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 happens	nsubj
43	often	often	ADV	_	44 happens	advmod
44	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 filled	advcl
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 life	case
46	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 happens	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 part	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 part	det
49	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 life	appos
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 uppermost	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 uppermost	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 uppermost	cop
53	uppermost	uppermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 part	acl:relcl
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 turned	aux:pass
55	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 turned	advmod
56	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 uppermost	advcl
57	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	56 turned	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 filled	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 filled	cc
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 filled	nsubj:pass
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 filled	aux:pass
62	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 had	conj
63	with	with	ADP	_	65 water	case
64	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 water	amod
65	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 filled	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old maid			the garret			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location
2	have	past	the old maid	a bird					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
3	is	might	garret		maid			useful property	tree rules
4	provide	past · passive		the bottle neck				with a cork	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with cork=Theme
5	take up	participle			maid				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result
6	happen	present	it			life		often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location
7	is	past · perfect	the part					uppermost property	tree rules
8	turn	past · passive	the part not said here				now	downwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»
9	fill	past · passive		garret				with fresh water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=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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