Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 63

"It looked dark enough up there," said the agent; "but then the magic business began--a great performance, 'The Judgment in the Theatre.'

Who acts: court, agent, magic business · What happens: look, say, begin · To what, where: great performance · 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 (court, agent, magic business), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dark	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 agent	det
12	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 but	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 began	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 business	det
18	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 business	amod
19	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 performance	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 performance	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 performance	amod
24	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Judgment	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Judgment	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Judgment	det
28	Judgment	Judgment	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 performance	appos
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 Theatre	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Theatre	det
31	Theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Judgment	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	past	court			dark property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the agent				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	past	the magic business	a great performance	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=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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