Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 60

This bottle would hold so much more than the little one, and they all said the brandy would be so good for complaints of the stomach, especially as it was mixed with medical herbs.

Who acts: bottle, boys, brandy, stomach · What happens: hold, say, be, mix, complain · To what, where: more, brandy · 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 (bottle, boys, brandy, stomach), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hold	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 they	det
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brandy	det
18	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 good	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 good	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 good	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 good	advmod
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 complaints	case
24	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 good	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 stomach	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stomach	det
27	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 complaints	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mixed	punct
29	especially	especially	ADV	_	33 mixed	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 mixed	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 mixed	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mixed	aux:pass
33	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hold	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 herbs	case
35	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 herbs	amod
36	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 mixed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	would	this bottle	more		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	boys = boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	the brandy		for complaints of the stomach; good property	tree rules
4	mix	past · passive		brandy	with medical herbs; especially property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with herb=Co-Patient
5	complain		the stomach			nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=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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