Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 74

The ship sank, and the crew sank with her; but the bottle flew on like a bird, for it bore within it a loving letter from a loving heart.

Who acts: ship, crew, bottle · What happens: sink, fly on, bear · To what, where: loving letter, loving heart

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 (ship, crew, bottle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sank	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sank	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crew	det
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	nsubj
8	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sank	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 flew	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottle	det
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flew	nsubj
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 flew	compound:prt
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flew	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bore	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 bore	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bore	nsubj
23	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 flew	conj
24	within	within	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bore	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 letter	det
27	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 letter	amod
28	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bore	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 heart	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 heart	det
31	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heart	amod
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 letter	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink	past	the ship				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sink	past	the crew			with hope	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with she=Instrument
3	fly on	past	the bottle			like a bird	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bear	past	ship	a loving letter	a loving heart	within crew	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

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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