Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 18
Nobility remains noble, as a champagne bottle remains the same, even with blacking in its interior.
Who acts: Nobility, champagne bottle · What happens: remain · To what, where: same
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 (Nobility, champagne bottle), 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 | Nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remains | nsubj |
| 2 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remains | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remains | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 remains | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 7 | champagne | champagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottle | compound |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remains | nsubj |
| 9 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remains | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remains | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blacking | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 blacking | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blacking | case |
| 15 | blacking | blacking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remains | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 interior | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 interior | nmod:poss |
| 18 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blacking | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | Nobility | noble property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | a champagne bottle | the same | with blacking in bottle's interior | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
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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