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title: Then he put the leaf in an empty bottle that happened to be at hand,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he put the leaf in an empty bottle that happened to be at hand, corked it down tightly, and threw it into the foaming sea. Who acts: mate, empty bottle, hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 72

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Then he put the leaf in an empty bottle that happened to be at hand, corked it down tightly, and threw it into the foaming sea.

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**Who acts:** mate, empty bottle, hand · **What happens:** put, happen, be, cork down, throw, foam · **To what, where:** leaf, empty bottle, hand, foaming sea

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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 (mate, empty bottle, hand), 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:pg27200:13:72
# text = Then he put the leaf in an empty bottle that happened to be at hand, corked it down tightly, and threw it into the foaming sea.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	corked	cork	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | mate | the leaf |  | a empty bottle | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in bottle=Destination |
| 2 | **happen** | past | a empty bottle |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cork down** | participle | hand *not said here* | leaf |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 5 | **throw** | past | mate *not said here* | leaf |  |  |  | into the foaming sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result |
| 6 | **foam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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