Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 94
Then they corked it down tightly, and carefully wrapped it up.
Who acts: stairs · What happens: cork down, wrap up · To what, where: paper
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 corked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 corked | nsubj |
| 3 | corked | cork | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 corked | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 corked | compound:prt |
| 6 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 3 corked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrapped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrapped | cc |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 wrapped | advmod |
| 10 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 corked | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrapped | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 corked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cork down | past | stairs = stair | paper | then | tightly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||
| 2 | wrap up | past | stairs = stair not said here | paper | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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