Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 51
The bottle neck remembered well how long it lay there unseen. "
Who acts: bottle neck, glass · What happens: remember, lie
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 neck, glass), 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 | 3 neck | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 neck | compound |
| 3 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 lay | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | advcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lay | advmod |
| 11 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | participle | the bottle neck | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | glass | there | long, unseen property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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