Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 72

Then he put the leaf in an empty bottle that happened to be at hand, corked it down tightly, and threw it into the foaming sea.

Who acts: mate, empty bottle, hand · What happens: put, happen, be, cork down, throw, foam · To what, where: leaf, empty bottle, hand, foaming sea

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, empty bottle, hand), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaf	det
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 bottle	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bottle	amod
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bottle	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	15 hand	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 hand	cop
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 corked	punct
17	corked	cork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hand	acl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 corked	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 corked	compound:prt
20	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	17 corked	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
27	foaming	foam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sea	amod
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 threw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	mate	the leaf	a empty bottle	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in bottle=Destination
2	happen	past	a empty bottle					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive			hand			tree rules
4	cork down	participle	hand not said here	leaf			tightly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
5	throw	past	mate not said here	leaf			into the foaming sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result
6	foam	gerund						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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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