Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 73
He knew not that it was the very same bottle from which the goblet of joy and hope had once been filled for him, and now it was tossing on the waves with his last greeting, and a message from the dead.
Who acts: mate, leaf · What happens: not know, be, fill, toss, greet · To what, where: message, same bottle, goblet, waves · 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 (mate, leaf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knew | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 bottle | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bottle | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bottle | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottle | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 same | advmod |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bottle | amod |
| 10 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 filled | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goblet | det |
| 14 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goblet | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hope | cc |
| 18 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goblet | conj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 filled | aux |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 filled | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 filled | aux:pass |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bottle | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 filled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tossing | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tossing | cc |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 tossing | advmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tossing | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tossing | aux |
| 30 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 waves | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 waves | det |
| 33 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tossing | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 greeting | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 greeting | amod |
| 37 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tossing | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 message | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 message | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 message | det |
| 41 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 dead | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 dead | det |
| 44 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 message | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | mate | a message from the dead | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | leaf | the same bottle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · perfect · passive | the goblet of joy and hope | the same bottle | for mate; once property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | toss | past · progressive | leaf | the waves | now | with mate's last greeting | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with greeting=Material | ||
| 5 | greet | mate | nom greeting «communication transitive»: 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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