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title: He had been placed in a row, with a whole regiment of his brothers a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had been placed in a row, with a whole regiment of his brothers and sisters all brought out of the same furnace; some of them had certainly been blown into champagne bottles, and others into beer bottles, which made a little difference between them. Who acts: whole regiment, beer bottles. A sente
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 16

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He had been placed in a row, with a whole regiment of his brothers and sisters all brought out of the same furnace; some of them had certainly been blown into champagne bottles, and others into beer bottles, which made a little difference between them.

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**Who acts:** whole regiment, beer bottles · **What happens:** place, bring out, blow, make · **To what, where:** neck, row, same furnace, some, champagne bottles, little difference

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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 (whole regiment, beer bottles), 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:pg27200:13:16
# text = He had been placed in a row, with a whole regiment of his brothers and sisters all brought out of the same furnace; some of them had certainly been blown into champagne bottles, and others into beer bottles, which made a little difference between them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	champagne	champagne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	between	between	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | neck |  | a row |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in row=Destination |
| 2 | **bring out** | past | a whole regiment of neck's brothers and sisters | the same furnace |  |  |  | all *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent furnace=Patient |
| 3 | **blow** | past · perfect · passive |  | some |  | champagne bottles |  | into beer bottles; others *obl*; certainly *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into bottle=Product |
| 4 | **make** | past | beer bottles | a little difference |  |  |  | between others *= other* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |

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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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