Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 84
The little letter contained within it was discovered, taken out, and turned and twisted in every direction; but the people could not understand what was written upon it.
Who acts: people · What happens: contain, discover, take out, turn, twist, not understand · To what, where: little letter, direction · 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 (people), 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 | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 letter | acl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 contained | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 discovered | aux:pass |
| 8 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taken | punct |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 discovered | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 taken | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 discovered | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 twisted | cc |
| 16 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 turned | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 direction | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 direction | det |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 twisted | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 understand | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 understand | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 understand | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 understand | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 understand | advmod |
| 26 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 discovered | parataxis |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 written | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 written | aux:pass |
| 29 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 understand | ccomp |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 written | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | participle | the little letter not said here | within letter | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | the little letter | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take out | participle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | twist | participle | every direction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | not understand | could | the people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | write | past · passive | upon letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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