Sentence:  In method as well as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '' , anticipates a kind of musical composition , as well as a kind of fictional composition , in which , as Leverku^hn says , `` there shall <WSD>be</WSD> nothing unthematic '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  happen, occur, take place; this was during the visit to my parents' house"