Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 90

The bottle was discovered when the roof was taken off; they talked about it, but the bottle did not understand what they said--a language is not to be learnt by living in a loft, even for twenty years. "

Who acts: secret, bottle · What happens: discover, take off, talk, not understand, say, not be · To what, where: bottle, roof, language, loft · 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 (secret, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discovered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discovered	aux:pass
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 taken	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux:pass
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 discovered	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 taken	compound:prt
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 talked	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talked	nsubj
13	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discovered	parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 understand	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 understand	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bottle	det
19	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 understand	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 understand	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 understand	advmod
22	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 talked	parataxis
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 said	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 understand	ccomp
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 learnt	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 language	det
28	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 learnt	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 learnt	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 learnt	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 learnt	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 learnt	aux:pass
33	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 talked	conj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 living	mark
35	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 learnt	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 loft	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 loft	det
38	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 living	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 years	punct
40	even	even	ADV	_	43 years	advmod
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 years	case
42	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 years	nummod
43	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 living	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past · passive		the bottle				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	take off	past · passive		the roof				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	talk	past	secret				about roof	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
4	not understand	past · do-support	the bottle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	secret					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	not is	present · passive		a language			learn property	tree rules
7	live	gerund			a loft	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loft=Location

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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