Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 20
The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpacked with the rest in the wine merchant's cellar, and, for the first time, rinsed with water, which caused some very curious sensations.
Who acts: bottle, water · What happens: not behold, unpack, rinse, cause, light · To what, where: light, bottle, cellar, first time, curious sensations, day
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, water), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 behold | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 behold | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 behold | advmod |
| 5 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 behold | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 light | nmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 behold | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unpacked | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 unpacked | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 unpacked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unpacked | aux:pass |
| 15 | unpacked | unpack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 behold | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unpacked | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 cellar | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 merchant | det |
| 21 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 merchant | compound |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 merchant | case |
| 24 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unpacked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 time | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 time | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 time | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 30 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 time | amod |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unpacked | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rinsed | punct |
| 33 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 time | acl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rinsed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 caused | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 caused | nsubj |
| 38 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 water | acl:relcl |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 sensations | det |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 curious | advmod |
| 41 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sensations | amod |
| 42 | sensations | sensation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 caused | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 behold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not behold | past · do-support | the bottle | the light of day | again | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | unpack | past · passive | bottle | the wine merchant's cellar | time | with the rest | tree rules | ||
| 3 | rinse | participle | the first time not said here | with water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | water | some curious sensations | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sensation=Patient | ||||
| 5 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.
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