Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 59
A small bottle had already been filled with herb tea, mixed with brandy, and wrapped in a parcel; but when the boys came in they brought with them a larger and stronger bottle, which they had found.
Who acts: boys · What happens: fill, mix, wrap, come in, bring, find · To what, where: small bottle, herb tea, parcel, larger 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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bottle | amod |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 filled | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | aux:pass |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 9 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tea | compound |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mixed | punct |
| 12 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tea | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brandy | case |
| 14 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mixed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wrapped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wrapped | cc |
| 17 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 filled | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 parcel | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 parcel | det |
| 20 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrapped | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 came | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boys | det |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brought | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 came | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bottle | det |
| 33 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 bottle | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stronger | cc |
| 35 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 larger | conj |
| 36 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 found | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | aux |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · perfect · passive | a small bottle | with herb tea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tea=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | herb tea not said here | with brandy | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with brandy=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | a parcel | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in parcel=Destination | |||||
| 4 | come in | past | the boys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | past | boys = boy | a larger bottle | with things = thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | |||
| 6 | find | past · perfect · passive | a larger bottle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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