Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 85

They could be quite sure that the bottle had been thrown overboard from a vessel, and that something about it was written on this paper: but what was written? that was the question,--so the paper was put back into the bottle, and then both were put away in a large cupboard of one of the great houses of the town.

Who acts: people, that · What happens: be, throw, write, put back, put away · To what, where: bottle, vessel, something, paper, question, both

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, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 thrown	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottle	det
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thrown	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thrown	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thrown	aux:pass
11	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	ccomp
12	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	11 thrown	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 vessel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vessel	det
15	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thrown	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 written	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 written	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 written	mark
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 written	nsubj:pass
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 something	nmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 written	aux:pass
23	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 paper	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 paper	det
26	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 written	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 written	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 written	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 written	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 written	aux:pass
31	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	ccomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 written	punct
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 question	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 question	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 question	det
36	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sure	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 question	punct
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	43 put	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 paper	det
41	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 put	aux:pass
43	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	conj
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 put	advmod
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 bottle	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 bottle	det
47	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 put	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 put	cc
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 put	advmod
51	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	53 put	nsubj:pass
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 put	aux:pass
53	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sure	conj
54	away	away	ADV	_	53 put	advmod
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 cupboard	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 cupboard	det
57	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 cupboard	amod
58	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 put	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 one	case
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 cupboard	nmod
61	of	of	ADP	_	64 houses	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 houses	det
63	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 houses	amod
64	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 one	nmod
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 town	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 town	det
67	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 houses	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	people				sure property	tree rules
2	throw	past · perfect · passive		the bottle	a vessel		overboard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from vessel=Initial_Location
3	write	past · passive		something	this paper			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on paper=Destination
4	write	past · passive						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is a	past	that	the question				tree rules
6	put back	past · passive		the paper	the bottle			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
7	put away	past · passive		both	a large cupboard of one of the great houses of the town	then	away property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cupboard=Destination

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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