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title: The liquid which they now poured into the bottle was not like the re… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The liquid which they now poured into the bottle was not like the red wine with which it had once been filled; these were bitter drops, but they are of great use sometimes-for the stomach. Who acts: boys, bottle, liquid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The B
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 61

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The liquid which they now poured into the bottle was not like the red wine with which it had once been filled; these were bitter drops, but they are of great use sometimes-for the stomach.

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**Who acts:** boys, bottle, liquid · **What happens:** pour, not be, fill, be · **To what, where:** liquid, red wine, bitter drops

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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 (boys, bottle, liquid), 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:pg27200:13:61
# text = The liquid which they now poured into the bottle was not like the red wine with which it had once been filled; these were bitter drops, but they are of great use sometimes-for the stomach.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past | boys *= boy* | the liquid |  |  | now |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the bottle |  |  | the red wine |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | past · perfect · passive |  | liquid |  |  |  | with the red wine; once *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the liquid | bitter drops but great use and the stomach |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | of great use; sometimes *property* | tree rules |

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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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