Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 96
And yet," thought the bottle, "men go on a journey that they may see as much as possible, and I can see nothing."
Who acts: men, stairs, I · What happens: think, go, see · To what, where: bottle, journey, much, nothing · 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 (men, stairs, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 yet | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 journey | det |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 possible | mark |
| 22 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 much | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 see | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the bottle | yet | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent bottle=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | men | a journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | may | stairs = stair | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | can | I | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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