Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 44
"When all was ready for the first representation, the whole company requested permission to speak to me before appearing in public.
Who acts: all, whole company · What happens: be, request, speak, appear · To what, where: permission, puppets, public · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (all, whole company), 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 | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 representation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 representation | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 representation | amod |
| 9 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 company | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 company | amod |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 representation | appos |
| 14 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 company | acl |
| 15 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 requested | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 speak | mark |
| 17 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permission | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 speak | obl |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 appearing | mark |
| 21 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 speak | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 public | case |
| 23 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 appearing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | all | for the first representation; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | request in a quote | participle | the whole company not said here | permission | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the whole company not said here | permission not said here | puppets = puppet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | appear in a quote | gerund | the whole company not said here | public | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in public=Location |
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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