Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 23
Then it was labelled "first quality," as if it had carried off the first prize at an examination; besides, the wine and the bottle were both good, and while we are young is the time for poetry.
Who acts: first quality, besides, we · What happens: labell, carry off, be · To what, where: bottle, young time
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 (first quality, besides, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 labelled | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 labelled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 labelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | labelled | labell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quality | punct |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 quality | amod |
| 7 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 labelled | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 carried | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 carried | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 quality | acl:relcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 prize | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prize | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 prize | amod |
| 18 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 examination | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 examination | det |
| 21 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prize | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 besides | punct |
| 23 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 good | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wine | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wine | det |
| 26 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 besides | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bottle | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bottle | det |
| 29 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wine | conj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 good | cop |
| 31 | both | both | ADV | _ | 32 good | advmod |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 labelled | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 time | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 time | cc |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 young | mark |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 young | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 young | cop |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 time | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 good | obl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 poetry | case |
| 43 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 time | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 labelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | labell | past · passive | bottle | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry off a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | first quality not said here | bottle | off the first prize at a examination | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prize=Value | |||
| 3 | is | past | besides and the wine and the bottle | both, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the young time | for poetry | tree rules |
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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