--- title: "This is a wonderful journey up into the air," thought the bottle; "… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "This is a wonderful journey up into the air," thought the bottle; "it is a new way of sailing, and here, at least, there is no fear of striking against anything." Who acts: This, wonderful journey, journey, new way. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/127/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/) / 127 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 127 "This is a wonderful journey up into the air," thought the bottle; "it is a new way of sailing, and here, at least, there is no fear of striking against anything." **Who acts:** This, wonderful journey, journey, new way, fear · **What happens:** be, think, strike · **To what, where:** wonderful journey, air, bottle, new way, fear, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (This, wonderful journey, journey, new way), 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:pg27200:13:127 # text = "This is a wonderful journey up into the air," thought the bottle; "it is a new way of sailing, and here, at least, there is no fear of striking against anything." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sailing sailing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 36 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 striking strike VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a wonderful journey | | the air | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a wonderful journey | the bottle | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bottle=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | journey | a new way | | here | | of sailing | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a new way | no fear | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **strike** *in a quote* | gerund | no fear *not said here* | | | anything | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against anything=Location | 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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/128/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)