Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 16

He had been placed in a row, with a whole regiment of his brothers and sisters all brought out of the same furnace; some of them had certainly been blown into champagne bottles, and others into beer bottles, which made a little difference between them.

Who acts: whole regiment, beer bottles · What happens: place, bring out, blow, make · To what, where: neck, row, same furnace, some, champagne bottles, little difference

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 (whole regiment, beer bottles), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 placed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 row	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 brought	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 regiment	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 regiment	amod
12	regiment	regiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 brothers	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 regiment	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sisters	cc
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brothers	conj
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	24 furnace	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 furnace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 furnace	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 furnace	amod
24	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 blown	punct
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 blown	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 some	nmod
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 blown	aux
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 blown	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 blown	aux:pass
32	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 placed	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 bottles	case
34	champagne	champagne	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bottles	compound
35	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blown	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 others	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 others	cc
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blown	obl
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 bottles	case
40	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bottles	compound
41	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blown	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 made	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 made	nsubj
44	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bottles	acl:relcl
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 difference	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 difference	amod
47	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 made	obj
48	between	between	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 difference	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · perfect · passive		neck	a row		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in row=Destination
2	bring out	past	a whole regiment of neck's brothers and sisters	the same furnace		all property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent furnace=Patient
3	blow	past · perfect · passive		some	champagne bottles	into beer bottles; others obl; certainly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into bottle=Product
4	make	past	beer bottles	a little difference		between others = other	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product

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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