--- title: Then the ropes which held it were cut through, and the aerial ship r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the ropes which held it were cut through, and the aerial ship rose in the air with the aeronaut and the basket containing the bottle and the rabbit, while the music sounded and all the people shouted "Hurrah." Who acts: ropes, aerial ship, basket, music. 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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 (ropes, aerial ship, basket, music), 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:pg27200:13:126 # text = Then the ropes which held it were cut through, and the aerial ship rose in the air with the aeronaut and the basket containing the bottle and the rabbit, while the music sounded and all the people shouted "Hurrah." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 through through ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 aerial aerial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 aeronaut aeronaut NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 containing contain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Hurrah Hurrah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the ropes | more | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | past · passive | | the ropes | | | then | through *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **rise** | past | the aerial ship | | | the air | | with the aeronaut and the basket | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | | 4 | **contain** | gerund | the basket *not said here* | the bottle and the rabbit | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bottle=Theme | | 5 | **sound** | past | the music | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | all people | Hurrah | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | 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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/127/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)