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title: In the world it often happens that a beer bottle may contain the mos… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the world it often happens that a beer bottle may contain the most precious wine, and a champagne bottle be filled with blacking, but even in decay it may always be seen whether a man has been well born. Who acts: it, beer bottle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 17

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In the world it often happens that a beer bottle may contain the most precious wine, and a champagne bottle be filled with blacking, but even in decay it may always be seen whether a man has been well born.

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**Who acts:** it, beer bottle · **What happens:** happen, contain, fill, see, bear · **To what, where:** world, precious wine, champagne bottle, decay, man

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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 (it, beer bottle), 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:pg27200:13:17
# text = In the world it often happens that a beer bottle may contain the most precious wine, and a champagne bottle be filled with blacking, but even in decay it may always be seen whether a man has been well born.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	champagne	champagne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	blacking	blacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
42	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | it |  |  | the world |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 2 | **contain** | may | a beer bottle | the precious wine |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wine=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | infinitive · passive |  | a champagne bottle |  |  |  | with blacking | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with blacking=Instrument |
| 4 | **see** | may · passive |  | decay |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bear** | present · perfect · passive |  | a man |  |  |  | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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