Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 44
The bottle could never after that forget the performance of that moment; indeed there was quite a convulsion within him as the cork flew out, and a gurgling sound as the wine was poured forth into the glasses.
Who acts: bottle, cork · What happens: not forget, be, fly out, gurgle, pour, perform · To what, where: performance, convulsion, gurgling sound, glasses, moment
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, cork), 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 | 19 convulsion | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 forget | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 forget | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 forget | obl |
| 7 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 performance | det |
| 9 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forget | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 performance | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 was | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 convulsion | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 convulsion | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 convulsion | det |
| 19 | convulsion | convulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 convulsion | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 flew | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cork | det |
| 24 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 convulsion | acl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 flew | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 poured | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 poured | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sound | det |
| 30 | gurgling | gurgle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 sound | amod |
| 31 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 wine | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wine | det |
| 34 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sound | nmod |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 poured | aux:pass |
| 36 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 flew | conj |
| 37 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 36 poured | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 glasses | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 glasses | det |
| 40 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 poured | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 convulsion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | could | the bottle not said here | the performance of that moment | after the bottle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the bottle | quite convulsion | within father | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fly out | past | the cork | quite convulsion not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location convulsion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gurgle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | pour | past · passive | a gurgling sound as the wine | the glasses | forth property | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into glass=Destination | |||
| 6 | perform | that moment | nom performance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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