Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 92
It was now washed and rinsed, which process was really quite necessary, and afterwards it looked clean and transparent, and felt young again in its old age; but the paper which it had carried so faithfully was destroyed in the washing.
Who acts: process, room · What happens: wash, rinse, be, look, feel, carry · To what, where: room, paper, washing
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 (process, room), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washed | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 washed | advmod |
| 4 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rinsed | cc |
| 6 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 washed | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 necessary | punct |
| 8 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 9 process | det |
| 9 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 necessary | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 necessary | cop |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 necessary | advmod |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 necessary | advmod |
| 13 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rinsed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 16 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 looked | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washed | conj |
| 19 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 transparent | cc |
| 21 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clean | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 felt | cc |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | conj |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 felt | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 age | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 age | nmod:poss |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 age | amod |
| 30 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 felt | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 destroyed | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 destroyed | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 paper | det |
| 34 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 carried | aux |
| 38 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 paper | acl:relcl |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 faithfully | advmod |
| 40 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 38 carried | advmod |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 42 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 washed | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 washing | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 washing | det |
| 45 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 destroyed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past · passive | room | now | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rinse | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | which process | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | past | room | afterwards, clean property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | room not said here | in room's old age; again | young property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in age=Attribute | |||
| 6 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the paper | faithfully property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | destroy | past · passive | the paper | the washing | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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