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title: She was thinking, like the bottle, of the green wood, and of a young… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was thinking, like the bottle, of the green wood, and of a young betrothed pair, who were closely connected with herself; she was thinking of that hour, the happiest of her life, in which she had taken part, when she had herself been one of that betrothed pair; such hours are never to be forgott
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 118

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She was thinking, like the bottle, of the green wood, and of a young betrothed pair, who were closely connected with herself; she was thinking of that hour, the happiest of her life, in which she had taken part, when she had herself been one of that betrothed pair; such hours are never to be forgotten, let a maiden be as old as she may.

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**Who acts:** maid, thinking, maiden · **What happens:** think, betroth, connect, take, be, not forget · **To what, where:** young betrothed pair, part, one, such hours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (maid, thinking, maiden), 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:pg27200:13:118
# text = She was thinking, like the bottle, of the green wood, and of a young betrothed pair, who were closely connected with herself; she was thinking of that hour, the happiest of her life, in which she had taken part, when she had herself been one of that betrothed pair; such hours are never to be forgotten, let a maiden be as old as she may.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
46	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
51	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	50	obj	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	cop	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	57	det	_	_
56	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	65	punct	_	_
59	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nsubj	_	_
61	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux:pass	_	_
62	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	65	advmod	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	65	mark	_	_
64	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	aux:pass	_	_
65	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
67	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	conj	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
69	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	nsubj	_	_
70	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	72	cop	_	_
71	as	as	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
72	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	advcl	_	_
73	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	75	mark	_	_
74	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
75	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	72	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | maid |  |  |  |  | like the bottle; of the green wood; of a young betrothed pair | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **betroth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **connect** | past · passive |  | a young betrothed pair |  |  |  | with maid; closely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with herself=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | maid |  |  |  | hour |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect | maid | part |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in which=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | past · perfect | thinking | one |  |  |  | of that betrothed pair | tree rules |
| 7 | **betroth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **forget** | present · passive |  | such hours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | infinitive | maiden |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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