--- title: A small bottle had already been filled with herb tea, mixed with bra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A small bottle had already been filled with herb tea, mixed with brandy, and wrapped in a parcel; but when the boys came in they brought with them a larger and stronger bottle, which they had found. Who acts: boys. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/59/) [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/) / 59 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 59 A small bottle had already been filled with herb tea, mixed with brandy, and wrapped in a parcel; but when the boys came in they brought with them a larger and stronger bottle, which they had found. **Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** fill, mix, wrap, come in, bring, find · **To what, where:** small bottle, herb tea, parcel, larger bottle 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 (boys), 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:pg27200:13:59 # text = A small bottle had already been filled with herb tea, mixed with brandy, and wrapped in a parcel; but when the boys came in they brought with them a larger and stronger bottle, which they had found. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 already already ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 brandy brandy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 parcel parcel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 26 obl _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 conj _ _ 36 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past · perfect · passive | | a small bottle | | | | with herb tea | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tea=Instrument | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | herb tea *not said here* | | | | with brandy | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with brandy=Co-Patient | | 3 | **wrap** | participle | | | | a parcel | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in parcel=Destination | | 4 | **come in** | past | the boys | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | past | boys *= boy* | a larger bottle | | | | with things *= thing* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | | 6 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | | a larger bottle | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/60/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)