Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 17

"I once heard of an actor, who, when he had to act the part of a lover, always thought of one particular lady in the audience; he only played for her, and forgot all the rest of the house, and now the Polytechnic lecturer was my she, my only auditor, for whom alone I played.

Who acts: man, lecturer, Polytechnic lecturer · What happens: hear, have, act, think, play, forget · To what, where: part, rest, only auditor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, lecturer, Polytechnic lecturer), 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	_	4 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 actor	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 actor	det
7	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 who	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 actor	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 had	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 who	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 act	mark
15	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 part	det
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 act	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lover	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lover	det
20	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 part	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 thought	advmod
23	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 part	acl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 lady	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 lady	nummod
26	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 audience	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 audience	det
30	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lady	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 played	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 played	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 played	advmod
34	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 played	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 forgot	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 forgot	cc
39	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 rest	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rest	det
42	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 forgot	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 house	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 house	det
45	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rest	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 auditor	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 auditor	cc
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 auditor	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 lecturer	det
50	Polytechnic	polytechnic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lecturer	amod
51	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 auditor	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 auditor	cop
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 auditor	nmod:poss
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 auditor	nsubj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 auditor	punct
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 auditor	nmod:poss
57	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 auditor	amod
58	auditor	auditor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 whom	punct
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 whom	case
61	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 played	obj
62	alone	alone	ADV	_	61 whom	advmod
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 played	nsubj
64	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	man			of a actor; once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of actor=Stimulus
2	have in a quote	past	lecturer				tree rules
3	act in a quote	to-infinitive	lecturer not said here	the part of a lover			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality
4	think speech: other in a quote	participle		the part of a lover not said here		of one particular lady in the audience; always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play in a quote	past	lecturer			for audience	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for she=Eventuality
6	forget in a quote	past	man not said here	all rest of the house			tree rules
7	is a in a quote	past	the Polytechnic lecturer	my only auditor	now		tree rules
8	play in a quote	past	man				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme

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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