Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 88
Ah! how often then it thought of those better days--of the times when in the fresh, green wood, it had poured forth rich wine; or, while rocked by the swelling waves, it had carried in its bosom a secret, a letter, a last parting sigh.
Who acts: cupboard, swelling waves · What happens: think, pour, rock, carry, bosom · To what, where: cupboard, fresh green wood, bosom
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 (cupboard, swelling waves), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 thought | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 often | advmod |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 thought | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 days | det |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 times | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 times | det |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 poured | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 19 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wood | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fresh | punct |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wood | amod |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 poured | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wood | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 poured | aux |
| 26 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 times | acl:relcl |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 rich | advmod |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wine | amod |
| 29 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 poured | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 while | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 while | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 or | punct |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 34 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 while | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 waves | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 waves | det |
| 37 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 waves | compound |
| 38 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rocked | obl:agent |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 carried | punct |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 carried | aux |
| 42 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 waves | acl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 bosom | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 45 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 carried | obl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 secret | det |
| 47 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 carried | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 letter | punct |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 letter | det |
| 50 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 secret | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 sigh | punct |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 sigh | det |
| 53 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 sigh | amod |
| 54 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sigh | compound |
| 55 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 letter | appos |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | cupboard | then; day; time | often property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pour | past · perfect · passive | cupboard | the fresh green wood | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme wine=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rock | participle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the swelling waves not said here | cupboard | cupboard's bosom | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary secret=Value | |||
| 5 | bosom | cupboard | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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