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title: Ah! how often then it thought of those better days--of the times whe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! how often then it thought of those better days--of the times when in the fresh, green wood, it had poured forth rich wine; or, while rocked by the swelling waves, it had carried in its bosom a secret, a letter, a last parting sigh. Who acts: cupboard, swelling waves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 88

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Ah! how often then it thought of those better days--of the times when in the fresh, green wood, it had poured forth rich wine; or, while rocked by the swelling waves, it had carried in its bosom a secret, a letter, a last parting sigh.

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**Who acts:** cupboard, swelling waves · **What happens:** think, pour, rock, carry, bosom · **To what, where:** cupboard, fresh green wood, bosom

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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 (cupboard, swelling waves), 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:pg27200:13:88
# text = Ah! how often then it thought of those better days--of the times when in the fresh, green wood, it had poured forth rich wine; or, while rocked by the swelling waves, it had carried in its bosom a secret, a letter, a last parting sigh.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	ccomp	_	_
34	rocked	rock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | cupboard |  |  |  | then; day; time | often *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pour** | past · perfect · passive |  | cupboard |  | the fresh green wood |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme wine=Destination |
| 3 | **rock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive | the swelling waves *not said here* | cupboard |  | cupboard's bosom |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary secret=Value |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | cupboard |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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