Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 64
But the mate did not see the bottle: indeed, if he had he would not have known it, or supposed it was the one out of which they had drunk to the felicity of the betrothed and to the prospect of a marriage on his own happy return.
Who acts: mate, ship · What happens: not see, have, not know, suppose, be, drink · To what, where: bottle, mate, one, boys, marriage, own happy return
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 (mate, ship), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mate | det |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 indeed | punct |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 known | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 known | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 known | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 known | aux |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 had | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 known | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 supposed | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 supposed | cc |
| 23 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 had | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 one | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 supposed | xcomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 drunk | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 drunk | aux |
| 33 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 one | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 felicity | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 felicity | det |
| 36 | felicity | felicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drunk | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 prospect | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 prospect | det |
| 39 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 prospect | amod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 prospect | cc |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 prospect | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 prospect | det |
| 43 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 felicity | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 marriage | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 marriage | det |
| 46 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 prospect | nmod |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 return | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 return | nmod:poss |
| 49 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 return | amod |
| 50 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 return | amod |
| 51 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 prospect | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | the mate | the bottle | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | mate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know | would · perfect · passive | mate | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | suppose | participle | mate not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | ship | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drink | past · perfect · passive | boys = boy | out the one; to the felicity of the betrothed prospect of a marriage on mate's own happy return | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | betroth | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | prospect | a marriage | mate's own happy return | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=patient on=place | |||||
| 9 | return | mate | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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