Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 16

She, on the contrary, used to announce the coming of autumn, with "Have you heard they're selling boxes for the theatre? now the performances will begin."

Who acts: you, people, performances · What happens: use, announce, come, hear, sell, begin · To what, where: boxes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, performances), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 contrary	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 contrary	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 contrary	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 contrary	det
5	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 contrary	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 announce	mark
9	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 used	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coming	det
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 announce	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 autumn	case
13	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 heard	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
17	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 begin	advcl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 selling	nsubj
21	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 selling	aux
22	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 heard	ccomp
23	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 selling	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 theatre	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 theatre	det
26	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 selling	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 begin	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 performances	det
30	performances	performance	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 begin	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 begin	aux
32	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 announce	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 contrary	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 contrary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	announce speech: other	to-infinitive					vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	come	gerund			autumn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear in a quote	present · perfect	you				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	sell in a quote	present · progressive	people	boxes		for the theatre	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent box=Theme for theatre=Asset
6	begin in a quote	future	the performances		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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