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title: They went jumping and rolling about, till at last they fell into the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They went jumping and rolling about, till at last they fell into the court-yard, and were broken into still smaller pieces; only the neck of the bottle managed to keep whole, and it was broken off as clean as if it had been cut with a diamond. Who acts: people, neck. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Ha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 141

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They went jumping and rolling about, till at last they fell into the court-yard, and were broken into still smaller pieces; only the neck of the bottle managed to keep whole, and it was broken off as clean as if it had been cut with a diamond.

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**Who acts:** people, neck · **What happens:** go, jump, roll about, fall, break, manage · **To what, where:** last, smaller pieces, piece

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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 (people, neck), 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:pg27200:13:141
# text = They went jumping and rolling about, till at last they fell into the court-yard, and were broken into still smaller pieces; only the neck of the bottle managed to keep whole, and it was broken off as clean as if it had been cut with a diamond.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll about** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | people |  |  | last |  | into the court yard | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 5 | **break** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | into smaller pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=Result |
| 6 | **manage** | past | the neck of the bottle |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the neck of the bottle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **break off** | past · passive |  | piece |  |  |  | as clean | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | piece |  |  |  | with a diamond | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient with diamond=Instrument |

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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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