Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 66
Those were happy days, and the bottle would sing when rubbed with a cork, and it was called a great lark, "Peter Jensen's lark."
Who acts: happy days · What happens: be, sing, rub, call · To what, where: happy days, cork · 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 (happy days), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 days | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 days | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sing | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sing | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sing | aux |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rubbed | advmod |
| 12 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sing | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cork | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cork | det |
| 15 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rubbed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 called | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sing | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lark | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lark | amod |
| 23 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lark | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 lark | punct |
| 26 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lark | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Jensen | Jensen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Peter | flat |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Peter | case |
| 29 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lark | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that happy days | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | would | that happy days | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rub | participle | that happy days not said here | with a cork | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cork=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | past · passive | cork | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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