Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 54
At length there came by two peasant boys, who peeped in among the reeds and spied out the bottle.
Who acts: length, two peasant boys · What happens: come, peep, spy out · To what, where: bottle
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 (length, two peasant boys), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 length | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 boys | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boys | nummod |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 peeped | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 peeped | nsubj |
| 11 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 boys | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 peeped | advmod |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 reeds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reeds | det |
| 15 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 peeped | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spied | cc |
| 17 | spied | spy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 peeped | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 spied | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottle | det |
| 20 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | length | by two peasant boys | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by boy=Location | ||||
| 2 | peep | past | two peasant boys | among the reeds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among reed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spy out | participle | two peasant boys not said here | the bottle | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Stimulus |
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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