Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 19

When the bottles were packed our bottle was packed amongst them; it little expected then to finish its career as a bottle neck, or to be used as a water-glass to a bird's-cage, which is, after all, a place of honor, for it is to be of some use in the world.

Who acts: bottle, some · What happens: pack, expect, finish, use, be · To what, where: bottles, bottle, career, world

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 (bottle, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 packed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottles	det
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 packed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 packed	aux:pass
5	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bottle	nmod:poss
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 packed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 packed	aux:pass
9	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 packed	conj
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 packed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 expected	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 expected	nsubj
14	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 expected	advmod
15	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 packed	conj
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 finish	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 finish	mark
18	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expected	xcomp
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 career	nmod:poss
20	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finish	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 neck	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 neck	det
23	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 neck	compound
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finish	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 used	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 used	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	29 used	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 used	aux:pass
29	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 expected	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	34 glass	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 glass	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 glass	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 water	punct
34	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 cage	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cage	det
37	bird's	bird's	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cage	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 bird's	punct
39	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 all	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 all	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 all	cop
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 is	punct
44	after	after	ADP	_	45 all	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 cage	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 place	punct
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 place	det
48	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 all	appos
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 honor	case
50	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 place	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 all	punct
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 all	nmod
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 use	cop
55	to	to	PART	_	59 use	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 use	cop
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 use	case
58	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	59 use	nsubj
59	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 all	acl:relcl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 world	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 world	det
62	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 use	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 packed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	past · passive		the bottles				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	pack	past · passive		our bottle			amongst others = other	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme amongst they=Destination
3	expect	past	bottle				little property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	finish not said to happen	to-infinitive	bottle not said here	bottle's career		then	as a bottle neck	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality career=Eventuality
5	use	to-infinitive · passive	bottle not said here				as a water glass; to a bird's cage	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
6	is	present	some		the world		use property	tree rules

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.

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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