Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 46

"Happiness and blessing to you both," said the old people-father and mother, and the young man filled the glasses again.

Who acts: old people, young man · What happens: bless, say, fill · To what, where: you, glasses · 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 (old people, young man), 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	_	2 Happiness	punct
2	Happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blessing	cc
4	blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Happiness	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 blessing	obl
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 you	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Happiness	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Happiness	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 filled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 filled	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 filled	nsubj
23	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 glasses	det
25	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 filled	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 filled	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bless in a quote	gerund	the old people not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	fill	past	the young man	the glasses		again	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=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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