Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 91

If I had been down stairs in the room," thought the bottle, "I might have learnt it."

Who acts: I, stairs · What happens: be, think, learn · To what, where: stairs, room, bottle · 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 (I, stairs), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 stairs	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stairs	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stairs	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stairs	cop
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 been	compound:prt
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thought	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stairs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stairs	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stairs	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottle	det
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 learnt	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 learnt	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 learnt	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 learnt	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 learnt	aux
20	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 thought	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 learnt	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 learnt	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	stairs	the room	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	stairs	the bottle		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent bottle=Attribute clause=Theme
3	learn	might · perfect	I	room		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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