Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 87

For a whole year the bottle remained standing in the cupboard, and then it was taken up to the loft, where it soon became covered with dust and cobwebs.

Who acts: bottle · What happens: remain, stand, take up, cover · To what, where: cupboard, it, loft

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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottle	det
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	nsubj
7	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 remained	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cupboard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cupboard	det
11	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 taken	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 taken	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taken	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 remained	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 taken	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 loft	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 loft	det
21	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 covered	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 became	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 became	nsubj
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 became	advmod
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 covered	aux:pass
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 loft	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 dust	case
29	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 covered	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cobwebs	cc
31	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dust	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the bottle			year		tree rules
2	stand	gerund	the bottle not said here		the cupboard			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cupboard=Location
3	take up	past · passive		it	the loft	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to loft=Destination
4	cover	past · passive					with dust and cobwebs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with dust=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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