Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 21

There it lay empty, and without a cork, and it had a peculiar feeling, as if it wanted something it knew not what.

Who acts: bottle · What happens: lie, have, feel, want, not know · To what, where: peculiar, something

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), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lay	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cork	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cork	cc
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 cork	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cork	det
9	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 peculiar	det
15	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 had	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 wanted	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 wanted	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feeling	parataxis
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 wanted	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 something	acl:relcl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 knew	advmod
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 knew	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	bottle		there	without a cork; empty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	bottle	a peculiar			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiar=Patient
3	feel	gerund	bottle not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	want a condition, not said to happen	past	bottle	something			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
5	not know	past	bottle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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