Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 30

In the evening a declamatory performance was to take place at the amateur theatre in a distant street.

Who acts: declamatory performance · What happens: take, be · To what, where: take place, amateur theatre

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (declamatory performance), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 performance	det
5	declamatory	declamatory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 performance	amod
6	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 place	compound
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 theatre	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 theatre	det
13	amateur	amateur	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 theatre	compound
14	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 street	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 street	det
17	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 street	amod
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 theatre	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	a declamatory performance	take place		the amateur theatre in a distant street	evening		tree rules

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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