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title: When the bottles were packed our bottle was packed amongst them; it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When the bottles were packed our bottle was packed amongst them; it little expected then to finish its career as a bottle neck, or to be used as a water-glass to a bird's-cage, which is, after all, a place of honor, for it is to be of some use in the world. Who acts: bottle, some. A sentence of «Fai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 19

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When the bottles were packed our bottle was packed amongst them; it little expected then to finish its career as a bottle neck, or to be used as a water-glass to a bird's-cage, which is, after all, a place of honor, for it is to be of some use in the world.

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**Who acts:** bottle, some · **What happens:** pack, expect, finish, use, be · **To what, where:** bottles, bottle, career, world

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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 (bottle, some), 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:pg27200:13:19
# text = When the bottles were packed our bottle was packed amongst them; it little expected then to finish its career as a bottle neck, or to be used as a water-glass to a bird's-cage, which is, after all, a place of honor, for it is to be of some use in the world.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	bird's	bird's	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	after	after	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nmod	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	59	nsubj	_	_
59	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | past · passive |  | the bottles |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pack** | past · passive |  | our bottle |  |  |  | amongst others *= other* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme amongst they=Destination |
| 3 | **expect** | past | bottle |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **finish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bottle *not said here* | bottle's career |  |  | then | as a bottle neck | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality career=Eventuality |
| 5 | **use** | to-infinitive · passive | bottle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a water glass; to a bird's cage | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **is** | present | some |  |  | the world |  | use *property* | tree rules |

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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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