Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 40
The bottle could not say, for he was in the provision basket.
Who acts: bottle, deal · What happens: not say, be · 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, deal), 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 | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 basket | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 basket | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 basket | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 basket | det |
| 12 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 basket | compound |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | could | the bottle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | deal | for the provision basket | 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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