Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 50

It was like a company of flies in a bottle, and I was in the bottle with them; for I was their director.

Who acts: complexion, I · What happens: be · To what, where: bottle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (complexion, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 company	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 company	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 company	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 company	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 flies	case
7	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 company	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bottle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flies	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bottle	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bottle	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bottle	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bottle	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bottle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bottle	det
17	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 company	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bottle	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 director	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 director	case
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 director	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 director	cop
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 director	nmod:poss
25	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 company	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 company	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	complexion		like a company and flies's director; of flies in a bottle	tree rules
2	is	past	I	the bottle	with flies = fly	tree rules
3	is	past	I		for flies's director	tree rules

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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