Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 93
They filled the bottle with seeds, though it scarcely knew what had been placed in it.
Who acts: stairs, paper · What happens: fill, know, place · To what, where: bottle, paper · 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 (stairs, paper), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 seeds | case |
| 6 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 filled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 11 knew | advmod |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 placed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | stairs = stair | the bottle | with seeds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient with seed=Instrument | |||
| 2 | know | past | paper | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | place | past · perfect · passive | paper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in it=Destination |
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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