Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 6
"Yes, you may sing very well, you have all your limbs uninjured; you should feel what it is like to lose your body, and only have a neck and a mouth left, with a cork stuck in it, as I have: you wouldn't sing then, I know.
Who acts: you, linnet, neck · What happens: sing, have, feel, be, leave, stick · To what, where: limbs, neck, cork, linnet · 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 (you, linnet, neck), 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 | _ | 6 sing | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | aux |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | parataxis |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 limbs | det:predet |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | uninjured | uninjured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 feel | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 feel | aux |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sing | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 lose | obj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lose | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lose | cop |
| 23 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 25 lose | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lose | mark |
| 25 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 feel | ccomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lose | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 have | advmod |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 feel | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 neck | det |
| 33 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mouth | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mouth | det |
| 36 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 neck | conj |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 neck | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cork | punct |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 cork | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 cork | det |
| 41 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | parataxis |
| 42 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 cork | acl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 stuck | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 have | punct |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 have | mark |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 have | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | parataxis |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 53 sing | punct |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 sing | nsubj |
| 51 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 sing | aux |
| 52 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 sing | advmod |
| 53 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 have | conj |
| 54 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 sing | advmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 know | punct |
| 56 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 know | nsubj |
| 57 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 sing | parataxis |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | may | you | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | your limbs | uninjured property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel in a quote | should | you | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | linnet | lose property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | infinitive | a neck and a mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | |||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | participle | a neck and a mouth not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stick in a quote | participle | a cork not said here | linnet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in it=Destination | ||||
| 8 | have in a quote | present | neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | not sing speech: express in a quote | would | you | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 10 | know in a quote | present | neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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