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title: Those were happy days, and the bottle would sing when rubbed with a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Those were happy days, and the bottle would sing when rubbed with a cork, and it was called a great lark, "Peter Jensen's lark." Who acts: happy days. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 66

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Those were happy days, and the bottle would sing when rubbed with a cork, and it was called a great lark, "Peter Jensen's lark."

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**Who acts:** happy days · **What happens:** be, sing, rub, call · **To what, where:** happy days, cork · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (happy days), 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:pg27200:13:66
# text = Those were happy days, and the bottle would sing when rubbed with a cork, and it was called a great lark, "Peter Jensen's lark."
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Jensen	Jensen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
29	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | that happy days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | would | that happy days |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rub** | participle | that happy days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a cork | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cork=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | cork |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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