Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 80

The bottle knew not, it travelled onward and onward, and at last all this wandering about became wearisome; at all events it was not its usual occupation.

Who acts: bottle, land · What happens: not know, travel, wonder, become, not be · To what, where: usual occupation, events · 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 (bottle, land), 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 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 knew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 travelled	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 travelled	nsubj
7	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
8	onward	onward	ADV	_	7 travelled	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 onward	cc
10	onward	onward	ADV	_	8 onward	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 last	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 last	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 travelled	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 this	det:predet
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 last	obl
17	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 this	acl
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 became	advmod
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wandering	ccomp
20	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 occupation	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 events	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 events	det
24	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 occupation	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 occupation	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 occupation	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 occupation	advmod
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 occupation	nmod:poss
29	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 occupation	amod
30	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past	the bottle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	travel	past	land			onward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past				about, wearisome property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	not is a	past	land	land's usual occupation	all events		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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