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title: In the borders were placed bottles, each containing a light, and amo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the borders were placed bottles, each containing a light, and among them the bottle with which we are acquainted, and whose fate it was, one day, to be only a bottle neck, and to serve as a water-glass to a bird's-cage. Who acts: each, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 110

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In the borders were placed bottles, each containing a light, and among them the bottle with which we are acquainted, and whose fate it was, one day, to be only a bottle neck, and to serve as a water-glass to a bird's-cage.

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**Who acts:** each, we · **What happens:** place, be, contain, serve · **To what, where:** placed bottles, borders, light, bottle neck

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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 (each, we), 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:pg27200:13:110
# text = In the borders were placed bottles, each containing a light, and among them the bottle with which we are acquainted, and whose fate it was, one day, to be only a bottle neck, and to serve as a water-glass to a bird's-cage.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	bird's	bird's	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | placed bottles |  | the borders |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | each | a light |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot light=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | with the bottle; acquainted *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a bottle neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as a water glass to a bird's cage | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as glass=Attribute |

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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:** «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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