Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 61

The liquid which they now poured into the bottle was not like the red wine with which it had once been filled; these were bitter drops, but they are of great use sometimes-for the stomach.

Who acts: boys, bottle, liquid · What happens: pour, not be, fill, be · To what, where: liquid, red wine, bitter drops

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, bottle, liquid), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liquid	det
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drops	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 poured	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poured	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 poured	advmod
6	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 liquid	acl:relcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	15 wine	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wine	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wine	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 wine	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 wine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wine	det
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wine	amod
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poured	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 filled	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 filled	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 filled	aux
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 filled	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 filled	aux:pass
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wine	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 drops	punct
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 drops	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 drops	cop
26	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 drops	amod
27	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 use	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 use	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 use	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 use	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 use	case
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 use	amod
34	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drops	conj
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 use	advmod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 stomach	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 stomach	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stomach	det
39	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drops	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 drops	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	boys = boy	the liquid		now		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
2	not is	past	the bottle		the red wine			tree rules
3	fill	past · perfect · passive		liquid			with the red wine; once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument
4	is a	past	the liquid	bitter drops but great use and the stomach				tree rules
5	is	present	boys = boy				of great use; sometimes property	tree rules

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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