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title: In front of the little window, an old bent bird-cage hung in the sun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In front of the little window, an old bent bird-cage hung in the sunshine, which had not even a proper water-glass, but instead of it the broken neck of a bottle, turned upside down, and a cork stuck in to make it hold the water with which it was filled. Who acts: sunshine, cork. A sentence of «Fair
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 3

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In front of the little window, an old bent bird-cage hung in the sunshine, which had not even a proper water-glass, but instead of it the broken neck of a bottle, turned upside down, and a cork stuck in to make it hold the water with which it was filled.

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**Who acts:** sunshine, cork · **What happens:** hang, not glass, turn down, stick in, make, hold · **To what, where:** old bent bird cage, sunshine, upside, front, cork, water

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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 (sunshine, cork), 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:pg27200:13:3
# text = In front of the little window, an old bent bird-cage hung in the sunshine, which had not even a proper water-glass, but instead of it the broken neck of a bottle, turned upside down, and a cork stuck in to make it hold the water with which it was filled.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	35	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
40	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
41	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obl	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle |  | a old bent bird cage *not said here* |  | the sunshine and a proper water glass |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location |
| 2 | **not** **glass** | past | the sunshine and a proper water glass |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn down** | participle |  | upside |  | front of the little window and a old bent bird cage but the broken neck of a bottle |  | down *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme |
| 4 | **stick in** | participle | a cork |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | a cork *not said here* | cork |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hold** | infinitive | cork *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 7 | **fill** | past · passive |  | cork |  |  |  | with the water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument |

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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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