Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 82

Not a word spoken in this country could the bottle understand; it was a language it had never before heard, and it is a great loss not to be able to understand a language.

Who acts: country, language · What happens: speak, understand, be, hear, not be · To what, where: word, language, country, great loss · 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 (country, language), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 word	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 word	acl
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 understand	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 understand	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 understand	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 understand	nsubj
11	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spoken	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 language	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 language	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 language	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 language	det
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	appos
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 before	advmod
20	before	before	ADV	_	21 heard	advmod
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 language	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 loss	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 loss	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 loss	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 loss	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 loss	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 loss	amod
28	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	conj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 able	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 able	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 loss	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 understand	mark
34	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 language	det
36	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 understand	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	participle		a word not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	understand	could	this country			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	country	a language		tree rules
4	hear	past · perfect · passive	a language not said here	country	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	is a	present	country	a great loss		tree rules
6	not is	to-infinitive	country not said here		able property	tree rules
7	understand	to-infinitive	country not said here	a language		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

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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