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title: How little she thought that this was the very same bottle which her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How little she thought that this was the very same bottle which her friend had thrown aloft in her honor, on that happy day of rejoicing, in the green wood, in her youthful days. Who acts: maid, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 132

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How little she thought that this was the very same bottle which her friend had thrown aloft in her honor, on that happy day of rejoicing, in the green wood, in her youthful days.

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**Who acts:** maid, this · **What happens:** think, be, throw, honor · **To what, where:** little, same bottle, honor · **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, this), 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:pg27200:13:132
# text = How little she thought that this was the very same bottle which her friend had thrown aloft in her honor, on that happy day of rejoicing, in the green wood, in her youthful days.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | maid | little |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | the same bottle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the same bottle |  | maid's honor | day | in the green wood; aloft *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in honor=Destination |
| 4 | **honor** |  | maid |  |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «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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