Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 8
I have no reason to sing, nor could I sing now if I were ever so happy; but when I was a whole bottle, and they rubbed me with a cork, didn't I sing then?
Who acts: I, limbs · What happens: have, sing, be, rub, not sing · To what, where: reason, whole bottle, me
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 (I, limbs), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sing | mark |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reason | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sing | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 sing | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sing | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sing | nsubj |
| 11 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sing | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 happy | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | cop |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 happy | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sing | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 bottle | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 bottle | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 bottle | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bottle | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bottle | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bottle | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bottle | amod |
| 26 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rubbed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rubbed | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 rubbed | nsubj |
| 30 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 rubbed | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 cork | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cork | det |
| 34 | cork | cork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rubbed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sing | punct |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 sing | aux |
| 37 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 sing | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 sing | nsubj |
| 39 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 rubbed | conj |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 sing | advmod |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | I not said here | no reason not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | could | I | now | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | I | ever | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | past | I | a whole bottle | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rub | past | limbs = limb | me | with a cork | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with cork=Theme | |||
| 7 | not sing speech: express | past · do-support | I | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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