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title: "That would make a capital bird's glass," said one of the cellar-men… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "That would make a capital bird's glass," said one of the cellar-men; but none of them had either a bird or a cage, and it was not to be expected they would provide one just because they had found a bottle neck that could be used as a glass. Who acts: That, one, none, people. A sentence of «Fairy Ta
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 142

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"That would make a capital bird's glass," said one of the cellar-men; but none of them had either a bird or a cage, and it was not to be expected they would provide one just because they had found a bottle neck that could be used as a glass.

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**Who acts:** That, one, none, people · **What happens:** make, say, have, not expect, provide, find · **To what, where:** glass, bird, one, bottle neck · **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 (That, one, none, people), 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:pg27200:13:142
# text = "That would make a capital bird's glass," said one of the cellar-men; but none of them had either a bird or a cage, and it was not to be expected they would provide one just because they had found a bottle neck that could be used as a glass.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
25	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc:preconj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	_
43	just	just	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | would | That | a capital bird's glass |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one of the cellar men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | none | a bird or a cage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **expect** | past · passive |  | glass |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **provide** | would | people | one |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | past · perfect | people | a bottle neck |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Topic |
| 7 | **use** | could · passive |  | a bottle neck |  |  |  | as a glass | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as glass=Attribute |

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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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