Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 34

There was the red wax on the cork, and the bottle looked straight at the young girl's face, and also at the face of the young sailor who sat near her.

Who acts: bottle, young sailor · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: face

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, young sailor), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wax	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wax	amod
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 cork	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cork	det
8	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bottle	det
12	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 face	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	20 face	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girl	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girl	amod
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 face	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 girl	case
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 face	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 face	cc
23	also	also	ADV	_	26 face	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 face	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 face	det
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 sailor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sailor	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sailor	amod
30	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 face	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sailor	acl:relcl
33	near	near	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sat	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bottle			the young girl's face		at the face of the young sailor; look property	tree rules
2	sit	past	the young sailor					near girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location

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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