Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 24

There were sounds of song within the bottle, of things it could not understand, of green sunny mountains, where the vines grow and where the merry vine-dressers laugh, sing, and are merry. "

Who acts: sounds, bottle, vines, merry vine dressers · What happens: be, not understand, grow, laugh, sing

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 (sounds, bottle, vines, merry vine dressers), 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	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 song	case
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	nmod
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 bottle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottle	det
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 understand	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 understand	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 understand	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 understand	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 understand	advmod
15	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 were	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mountains	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountains	case
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mountains	amod
19	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mountains	amod
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grow	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grow	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 grow	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vines	det
24	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grow	nsubj
25	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 understand	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 laugh	cc
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 laugh	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dressers	det
29	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dressers	amod
30	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dressers	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 vine	punct
32	dressers	dresser	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 laugh	nsubj
33	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 grow	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sing	punct
35	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 laugh	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 merry	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 merry	cc
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 merry	cop
39	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grow	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 understand	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	sounds of song	there	within the bottle	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not understand	could	bottle		of things	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of thing=Stimulus
3	grow	present	the vines		of green sunny mountains	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	present	the merry vine dressers			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	present	the merry vine dressers not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the vines not said here		merry property	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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