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title: The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpacked with the rest in the wine merchant's cellar, and, for the first time, rinsed with water, which caused some very curious sensations. Who acts: bottle, water. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 20

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The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpacked with the rest in the wine merchant's cellar, and, for the first time, rinsed with water, which caused some very curious sensations.

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**Who acts:** bottle, water · **What happens:** not behold, unpack, rinse, cause, light · **To what, where:** light, bottle, cellar, first time, curious sensations, day

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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, water), 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:pg27200:13:20
# text = The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpacked with the rest in the wine merchant's cellar, and, for the first time, rinsed with water, which caused some very curious sensations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	unpacked	unpack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	rinsed	rinse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	sensations	sensation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **behold** | past · do-support | the bottle | the light of day |  |  | again |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 2 | **unpack** | past · passive |  | bottle |  | the wine merchant's cellar | time | with the rest | tree rules |
| 3 | **rinse** | participle |  | the first time *not said here* |  |  |  | with water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** | past | water | some curious sensations |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sensation=Patient |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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