Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 5

"Yes, it's all very well for you to sing," said the bottle neck: that is, he did not really speak the words as we do, for the neck of a bottle cannot speak; but he thought them to himself in his own mind, just as people sometimes talk quietly to themselves.

Who acts: linnet, you, bottle neck, that, we, neck · What happens: be, sing, say, not be, do, not speak · To what, where: words, neck, own mind, people · 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 (linnet, you, bottle neck, that), 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	_	12 sing	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 well	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 well	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 well	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 sing	advmod
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 sing	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sing	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sing	mark
12	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
17	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 neck	compound
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 speak	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 speak	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 speak	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 speak	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 speak	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 speak	advmod
26	really	really	ADV	_	27 speak	advmod
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 words	det
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 speak	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 do	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
32	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 speak	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 neck	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 neck	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 neck	det
36	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 speak	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 bottle	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bottle	det
39	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 neck	nmod
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 speak	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 speak	advmod
42	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 speak	conj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 thought	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 thought	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 thought	nsubj
46	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 thought	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 himself	case
49	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 thought	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 mind	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 mind	nmod:poss
52	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 mind	amod
53	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 thought	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 talk	punct
55	just	just	ADV	_	59 talk	advmod
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 talk	mark
57	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 talk	nsubj
58	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	59 talk	advmod
59	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 thought	conj
60	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	59 talk	advmod
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 themselves	case
62	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	59 talk	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	linnet				all, well property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	you					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the bottle neck					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not is	present · do-support	that				speak property	tree rules
5	do	present	we					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not speak speech: other	can	the neck of a bottle					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	past	neck	words = word	neck	neck's own mind		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
8	talk	present	people		people		quietly, sometimes property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to themselves=Co-Agent
9	mind		neck					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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