Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 9

The prompter's bell sounded; 'the hero enters with a determined air,' so ran the stage direction in his part, and he had to appear before an audience who turned him into ridicule.

Who acts: bell, hero, audience · What happens: sound, enter, run, have, appear, turn · To what, where: stage direction, part, audience, hero, ridicule

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bell, hero, audience), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prompter	det
2	prompter	prompter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bell	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 prompter	case
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 enters	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 enters	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hero	det
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enters	nsubj
10	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sounded	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 air	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 air	det
13	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 air	amod
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enters	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 air	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 enters	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 ran	advmod
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 enters	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 direction	det
20	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 direction	compound
21	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 part	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 part	nmod:poss
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 direction	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sounded	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 appear	mark
30	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 audience	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 audience	det
33	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appear	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 turned	nsubj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 audience	acl:relcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turned	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 ridicule	case
38	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the prompter's bell				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	enter	present	the hero			with a determined air	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	past	the hero not said here	the stage direction	hero's part		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent direction=Theme in part=Trajectory
4	have	past	hero				tree rules
5	appear	to-infinitive	hero not said here		a audience		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before audience=Location
6	turn	past	a audience	hero	ridicule		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into ridicule=Trajectory

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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