Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 27

The acting was wonderful, excepting that sometimes they came out beyond the lamps, because the wires were a little too long.

Who acts: acting, characters, wires · What happens: be, except, come out

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acting, characters, wires), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acting	det
2	acting	acting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wonderful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonderful	cop
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 excepting	punct
6	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wonderful	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 came	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonderful	advcl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	14 lamps	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lamps	det
14	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 long	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wires	det
18	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 long	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 long	advmod
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 came	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wonderful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the acting	wonderful property	tree rules
2	except	gerund	the acting not said here		tree rules
3	come out	past	characters = character	beyond the lamps; out, sometimes property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the wires	long property	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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