Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 27
One morning the bottle found a purchaser in the furrier's apprentice, who was told to bring one of the best bottles of wine.
Who acts: bottle, apprentice · What happens: find, tell, bring · To what, where: purchaser, apprentice, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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, apprentice), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 purchaser | det |
| 7 | purchaser | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 apprentice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 furrier | det |
| 10 | furrier | furrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 apprentice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 furrier | case |
| 12 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 told | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 apprentice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bring | mark |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | xcomp |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bottles | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bottles | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 bottles | amod |
| 23 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wine | case |
| 25 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bottles | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the bottle | a purchaser | the furrier's apprentice | morning | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Topic | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the furrier's apprentice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | the furrier's apprentice not said here | one of the best bottles of wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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