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title: But the bottle was not broken, and, better still, it understood ever… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the bottle was not broken, and, better still, it understood every word that was said: this language it had heard at the furnaces and at the wine merchant's; in the forest and on the ship,--it was the only good old language it could understand. Who acts: trouble. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 99

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But the bottle was not broken, and, better still, it understood every word that was said: this language it had heard at the furnaces and at the wine merchant's; in the forest and on the ship,--it was the only good old language it could understand.

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**Who acts:** trouble · **What happens:** not break, understand, say, hear, be · **To what, where:** bottle, word, language, furnaces, only good old language · **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 (trouble), 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:pg27200:13:99
# text = But the bottle was not broken, and, better still, it understood every word that was said: this language it had heard at the furnaces and at the wine merchant's; in the forest and on the ship,--it was the only good old language it could understand.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **break** | past · passive |  | the bottle |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **understand** | past | trouble | every word |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | every word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | trouble | this language *not said here* |  | the furnaces at the wine merchant |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | trouble | the only good old language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **understand** | could | trouble | the only good old language *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |

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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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