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title: Close before the bottle passed a single pair, like the bridal pair--… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Close before the bottle passed a single pair, like the bridal pair--the mate and the furrier's daughter--who had so long ago wandered in the wood. Who acts: bottle, bridal pair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 114

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Close before the bottle passed a single pair, like the bridal pair--the mate and the furrier's daughter--who had so long ago wandered in the wood.

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**Who acts:** bottle, bridal pair · **What happens:** pass, have, wander · **To what, where:** single pair, wood

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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 (bottle, bridal pair), 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:pg27200:13:114
# text = Close before the bottle passed a single pair, like the bridal pair--the mate and the furrier's daughter--who had so long ago wandered in the wood.
1	Close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	furrier	furrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the bottle | a single pair |  |  |  | like the bridal pair and the mate and the furrier's daughter; close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | the bridal pair and the mate and the furrier's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wander** | past | the bridal pair and the mate and the furrier's daughter *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  | ago *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory |

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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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