Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 55
Then they took it up and carried it home with them, so that once more it was provided for.
Who acts: boys · What happens: take up, carry, provide · To what, where: length
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carried | cc |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 provided | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 provided | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 provided | mark |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 provided | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 provided | aux:pass |
| 19 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 provided | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | boys = boy | length | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | boys = boy not said here | length | with boys = boy; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | provide | past · passive | length | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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