Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 45
"Long life to the betrothed," cried the papa, and every glass was emptied to the dregs, while the young sailor kissed his beautiful bride.
Who acts: papa, young sailor · What happens: betroth, cry, empty, kiss · To what, where: Long life, glass, dregs, beautiful bride · 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 (papa, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 life | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 betrothed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 betrothed | det |
| 6 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cried | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 betrothed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 papa | det |
| 11 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 emptied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 emptied | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 glass | det |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 emptied | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 emptied | aux:pass |
| 17 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cried | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dregs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dregs | det |
| 20 | dregs | dreg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 emptied | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kissed | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 kissed | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sailor | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sailor | amod |
| 25 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kissed | nsubj |
| 26 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bride | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bride | amod |
| 29 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kissed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth in a quote | participle | the papa not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the papa | Long life | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | empty | past · passive | every glass | the dregs | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dreg=Destination | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | the young sailor | sailor's beautiful bride | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Co-Agent |
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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