Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 154
Many thoughts came into her mind; but the thought never came, that quite close to her, in that very window, was a remembrance of those olden times,--the neck of the bottle which had, as it were shouted for joy when the cork flew out with a bang on the betrothal day.
Who acts: Many thoughts, thought, neck, cork · What happens: come, not come, be, have, shout, fly out · To what, where: mind, close, remembrance, window
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 (Many thoughts, thought, neck, cork), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thoughts | amod |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 mind | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thought | det |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 close | nsubj |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 close | advmod |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 close | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 window | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 window | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 window | advmod |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 close | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 remembrance | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 remembrance | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 remembrance | det |
| 27 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 times | case |
| 29 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 times | det |
| 30 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 times | amod |
| 31 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 remembrance | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 neck | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 neck | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 neck | det |
| 35 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remembrance | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bottle | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bottle | det |
| 38 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 neck | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 neck | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 shouted | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 shouted | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 shouted | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 shouted | aux:pass |
| 45 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 came | parataxis |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 joy | case |
| 47 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shouted | obl |
| 48 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 51 flew | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 cork | det |
| 50 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 flew | nsubj |
| 51 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 shouted | advcl |
| 52 | out | out | ADP | _ | 51 flew | compound:prt |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 bang | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 bang | det |
| 55 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 flew | obl |
| 56 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 day | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 day | det |
| 58 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 day | compound |
| 59 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 flew | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Many thoughts | thought's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not come | past | the thought | close and that window | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a remembrance and the neck of the bottle | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the neck of the bottle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | past · passive | window | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | fly out | past | the cork | day | with a bang | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | mind | thought | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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