Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 33

The provision basket lay in the lap of the young girl as the family drove out to the forest, and the neck of the bottle peeped out from between the folds of the white napkin.

Who acts: provision basket, family · What happens: lie, drive out, peep out · To what, where: lap, forest, neck, folds

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 (provision basket, family), 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	3 basket	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 basket	compound
3	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lap	det
7	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lap	nmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 drove	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drove	nsubj
15	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	advcl
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 drove	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drove	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 peeped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 peeped	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 neck	det
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 peeped	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bottle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottle	det
26	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 neck	nmod
27	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 peeped	compound:prt
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 folds	case
30	between	between	ADP	_	32 folds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 folds	det
32	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 peeped	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 napkin	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 napkin	det
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 napkin	amod
36	napkin	napkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 folds	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the provision basket		the lap of the young girl		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location
2	drive out	past	the family		the forest	out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory
3	peep out	participle · passive		the neck of the bottle	the folds of the white napkin		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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