Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 47
"Safe return, and a wedding this day next year," he cried; and when the glasses were empty he took the bottle, raised it on high, and said, "Thou hast been present here on the happiest day of my life; thou shalt never be used by others!"
Who acts: wedding, glasses, Thou, others · What happens: year, cry, be, take, raise, say · To what, where: Safe return, bottle, glass, high, present, thou · 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 (wedding, glasses, Thou, others), 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 return | punct |
| 2 | Safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 return | amod |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 year | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 year | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 year | nsubj |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wedding | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 empty | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 empty | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 empty | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 glasses | det |
| 20 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 empty | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 empty | cop |
| 22 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cried | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 empty | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bottle | det |
| 26 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 raised | punct |
| 28 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 raised | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 high | case |
| 31 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 raised | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 present | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 present | punct |
| 37 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 present | nsubj |
| 38 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 present | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 present | cop |
| 40 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | ccomp |
| 41 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 present | advmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 day | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 day | det |
| 44 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 day | amod |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 life | case |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 life | nmod:poss |
| 48 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 day | nmod |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 used | punct |
| 50 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 54 used | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 54 used | aux |
| 52 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 54 used | advmod |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 used | aux:pass |
| 54 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cried | conj |
| 55 | by | by | ADP | _ | 56 others | case |
| 56 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 used | obl |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 54 used | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | year in a quote | a wedding this day | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | wedding | Safe return | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the glasses | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | wedding | the bottle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | raise | past | wedding not said here | glass | high | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on high=Destination | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | wedding not said here | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | Thou | present | here | tree rules | |||
| 8 | not use in a quote | shall · passive | others | thou | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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