Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 42
Then her father took the bottle and the cork-screw into his hands.
Who acts: father · What happens: take · To what, where: bottle, hands
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 (father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottle | det |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 screw | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 screw | det |
| 9 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screw | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 cork | punct |
| 11 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottle | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | daughter's father | the bottle and the cork screw | father's hands | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme into hand=Destination |
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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