Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 67

Long days and months rolled by, during which the bottle stood empty in a corner, when a storm arose--whether on the passage out or home it could not tell, for it had never been ashore.

Who acts: Long days, storm · What happens: roll, stand, arise, not tell, not be · To what, where: Long days, corner, passage · 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 (Long days, storm), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 months	cc
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 days	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 rolled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
8	during	during	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stood	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottle	det
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stood	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 corner	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 corner	det
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 arose	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 arose	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 storm	det
20	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arose	nsubj
21	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	parataxis
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 tell	mark
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 passage	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 passage	det
26	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 passage	compound:prt
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 home	cc
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 passage	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 tell	advmod
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 arose	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 it	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	ccomp
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 it	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 ashore	advmod
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 ashore	cop
40	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	37 had	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	participle		Long days and months not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	Long days and months		a corner	empty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
3	arise	past	a storm				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert	could	storm		the passage or home		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	participle				ashore 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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