Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 41
It remained there a long time; but when at last it was brought forth it appeared as if something pleasant had happened, for every one was laughing; the furrier's daughter laughed too, but she said very little, and her cheeks were like two roses.
Who acts: basket, it, something, one, daughter, cheeks · What happens: remain, bring, appear, happen, laugh, say · To what, where: basket, little · 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 (basket, it, something, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 remained | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 appeared | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 brought | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 when | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 appeared | advcl |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 brought | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 happened | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 happened | mark |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 something | amod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happened | aux |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 appeared | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 laughing | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 laughing | mark |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laughing | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 laughing | aux |
| 29 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 happened | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 laughed | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 furrier | det |
| 32 | furrier | furrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 furrier | case |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laughed | nsubj |
| 35 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | parataxis |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 laughed | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 said | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 said | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 said | nsubj |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 laughed | conj |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 little | advmod |
| 42 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 said | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 roses | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 roses | cc |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 46 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 roses | nsubj |
| 47 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 roses | cop |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 50 roses | case |
| 49 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 roses | nummod |
| 50 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 said | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | basket | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | basket | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | laugh | past · progressive | every one | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | laugh | past | the furrier's daughter | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||||
| 8 | is | past | daughter's cheeks | like two roses | 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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