--- title: For very joy, it felt ready to jump out of people's hands, and scarc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: For very joy, it felt ready to jump out of people's hands, and scarcely noticed that its cork had been drawn, and its contents emptied out, till it found itself carried to a cellar, to be left there and forgotten. " Who acts: language, contents. 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" **Who acts:** language, contents · **What happens:** feel, jump out, notice, draw, empty out, find · **To what, where:** hands, cork, language, cellar · **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 (language, contents), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:13:101 # text = For very joy, it felt ready to jump out of people's hands, and scarcely noticed that its cork had been drawn, and its contents emptied out, till it found itself carried to a cellar, to be left there and forgotten. " 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 cork cork NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 contents contents NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 29 nsubj _ _ 29 emptied empty VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 till till SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 35 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obj _ _ 36 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 xcomp _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | language | | | | | for joy; ready *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **jump out** | to-infinitive | language *not said here* | people's hands | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Trajectory | | 3 | **notice** | past | language *not said here* | | | | | scarcely *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **draw** | past · perfect · passive | | language's cork | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **empty out** | participle | language's contents | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **find** | past | language | language | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent itself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 7 | **carry** | participle | language *not said here* | | | a cellar | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to cellar=Destination | | 8 | **leave** | to-infinitive · passive | language *not said here* | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 9 | **forget** | participle | language *not said here* | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/102/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)