Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 62
The new large bottle was to go, not the little one: so the bottle once more started on its travels.
Who acts: new large bottle · What happens: be, start, travel · To what, where: 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 (new large bottle), 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 | 4 bottle | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bottle | amod |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bottle | amod |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 one | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 started | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 started | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottle | det |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 started | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 started | advmod |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | conj |
| 20 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 travels | mark |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 travels | nmod:poss |
| 22 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 started | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the new large bottle | the little one obl; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | participle · passive | the bottle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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