--- title: "Safe return, and a wedding this day next year," he cried; and when… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Safe return, and a wedding this day next year," he cried; and when the glasses were empty he took the bottle, raised it on high, and said, "Thou hast been present here on the happiest day of my life; thou shalt never be used by others!" Who acts: wedding, glasses, Thou, others. 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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 (wedding, glasses, Thou, others), 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:pg27200:13:47 # text = "Safe return, and a wedding this day next year," he cried; and when the glasses were empty he took the bottle, raised it on high, and said, "Thou hast been present here on the happiest day of my life; thou shalt never be used by others!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nsubj _ _ 38 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 cop _ _ 40 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 ccomp _ _ 41 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 happiest happy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 amod _ _ 45 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 54 punct _ _ 50 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 52 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 53 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 aux:pass _ _ 54 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 55 by by ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ! ! PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **year** *in a quote* | | a wedding this day | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | wedding | Safe return | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the glasses | | | | | empty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | past | wedding | the bottle | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | | 5 | **raise** | past | wedding *not said here* | glass | | high | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on high=Destination | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wedding *not said here* | | | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Thou | present | | here | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **use** *in a quote* | shall · passive | others | thou | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/48/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)