Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 147

An old friend had just come to visit her, and they talked, not about the bottle neck, but of the myrtle in the window.

Who acts: old friend, friend · What happens: come, visit, talk · To what, where: murmur, bottle neck

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 friend, friend), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 visit	mark
8	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 visit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 talked	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talked	nsubj
13	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 neck	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 neck	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 neck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 neck	det
18	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neck	compound
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talked	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 myrtle	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 myrtle	cc
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 myrtle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 myrtle	det
24	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talked	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 myrtle	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	a old friend			tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	a old friend not said here	murmur		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	talk	past	friend	the bottle neck	of the myrtle in the window	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent neck=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/147/