Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 145

"Ah, you have good reason to sing," said the bottle neck, which was looked upon as something very remarkable, because it had been in a balloon; nothing further was known of its history.

Who acts: you, bottle neck, something, reason · What happens: have, sing, say, look, be, know · To what, where: good reason, bottle neck, balloon, nothing · 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 (you, bottle neck, something, reason), 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	_	5 have	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sing	mark
9	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reason	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 neck	det
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 neck	compound
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 looked	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	aux:pass
19	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 neck	acl:relcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 something	case
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 something	case
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 looked	obl:agent
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 remarkable	advmod
24	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 something	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 balloon	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 balloon	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 balloon	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 balloon	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 balloon	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 balloon	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 balloon	det
32	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 known	punct
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 known	nsubj:pass
35	further	further	ADV	_	37 known	advmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 known	aux:pass
37	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 history	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 history	nmod:poss
40	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 known	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	good reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	sing speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	good reason not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the bottle neck				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	past · passive	something	the bottle neck			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Attribute
5	is	past · perfect	reason		a balloon		tree rules
6	know	past · passive		nothing		of reason's history; further property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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