--- title: There were sounds of song within the bottle, of things it could not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There were sounds of song within the bottle, of things it could not understand, of green sunny mountains, where the vines grow and where the merry vine-dressers laugh, sing, and are merry. " Who acts: sounds, bottle, vines, merry vine dressers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/) / 24 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 24 There were sounds of song within the bottle, of things it could not understand, of green sunny mountains, where the vines grow and where the merry vine-dressers laugh, sing, and are merry. " **Who acts:** sounds, bottle, vines, merry vine dressers · **What happens:** be, not understand, grow, laugh, sing 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 (sounds, bottle, vines, merry vine dressers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:13:24 # text = There were sounds of song within the bottle, of things it could not understand, of green sunny mountains, where the vines grow and where the merry vine-dressers laugh, sing, and are merry. " 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 within within ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 vines vine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 vine vine NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 dressers dresser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | sounds of song | | | there | | within the bottle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **understand** | could | bottle | | | | | of things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of thing=Stimulus | | 3 | **grow** | present | the vines | | | | | of green sunny mountains | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **laugh** | present | the merry vine dressers | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the merry vine dressers *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the vines *not said here* | | | | | merry *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/25/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)