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title: My town is just like a bottle; and one gets in by the neck, and by t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My town is just like a bottle; and one gets in by the neck, and by the neck one must get out again! Who acts: town, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 67

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My town is just like a bottle; and one gets in by the neck, and by the neck one must get out again!

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**Who acts:** town, one · **What happens:** be, get in, get out

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:25:67
# text = My town is just like a bottle; and one gets in by the neck, and by the neck one must get out again!
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My town |  |  |  |  | like a bottle | tree rules |
| 2 | **get in** | present | one |  |  |  |  | by the neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get out** | must | one *not said here* |  |  |  | again | by the neck one; out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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