Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 4

A little iron chandelier hung beneath the ceiling, and that it might be made to disappear into the ceiling, as it does in great theatres, when the ting-ting of the prompter's bell is heard, a great inverted tub has been placed just above it.

Who acts: little iron chandelier, chandelier · What happens: hang, make, disappear, do, hear, invert · To what, where: ceiling, chandelier, great theatres, ting ting, great inverted tub, theatre

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little iron chandelier, chandelier), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chandelier	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chandelier	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chandelier	compound
4	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	nsubj
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 ceiling	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ceiling	det
8	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj:pass
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hung	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 disappear	mark
17	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 ceiling	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ceiling	det
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disappear	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 does	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 does	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 does	nsubj
24	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 theatres	case
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 theatres	amod
27	theatres	theatre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 does	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 heard	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 heard	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ting	det
31	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ting	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ting	punct
33	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 heard	nsubj:pass
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 bell	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 prompter	det
36	prompter	prompter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bell	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 prompter	case
38	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ting	nmod
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 heard	aux:pass
40	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 does	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 placed	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 tub	det
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tub	amod
44	inverted	invert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 tub	amod
45	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 placed	nsubj:pass
46	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 placed	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 placed	aux:pass
48	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 heard	conj
49	just	just	ADV	_	51 it	advmod
50	above	above	ADP	_	51 it	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 placed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang	past	a little iron chandelier		the ceiling	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath ceiling=Location
2	make	might · passive		chandelier		tree rules
3	disappear	to-infinitive	chandelier not said here		the ceiling	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	chandelier		great theatres	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	present · passive		the ting ting of the prompter's bell		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
6	invert	participle				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
7	place	present · perfect · passive		a great inverted tub	theatre	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above it=Destination
8	ting			the prompter's bell		nom ting «event transitive»: of=patient

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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