Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 155

But the bottle neck did not recognize the old maid; he had not been listening to what she had related, perhaps because he was thinking so much about her.

Who acts: bottle neck, neck, maid · What happens: not recognize, not listen, relate, think · To what, where: old maid

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 (bottle neck, neck, maid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1012): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 recognize	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neck	det
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neck	compound
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recognize	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 recognize	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 recognize	advmod
7	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maid	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 maid	amod
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recognize	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 listening	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 listening	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 listening	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 listening	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 listening	aux
16	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 recognize	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 listening	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 related	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 related	aux
21	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thinking	punct
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	27 thinking	advmod
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 thinking	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thinking	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thinking	aux
27	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 listening	advcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	27 thinking	advmod
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thinking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 recognize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not recognize	past · do-support	the bottle neck	the old maid		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus
2	not listen	past · perfect · progressive	neck			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
3	relate	past · perfect	maid			vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past · progressive	neck		about maid; perhaps property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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