Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 5

"'Ting-ting!' and the little iron chandelier suddenly rose at least half a yard and disappeared in the tub; and that was the sign that the play was going to begin.

Who acts: Ting ting, that, play · What happens: rise, disappear, be, go, begin · To what, where: yard, tub, sign

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 (Ting ting, that, play), 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 ting	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 ting	punct
3	Ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ting	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Ting	punct
5	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ting	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 ting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chandelier	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chandelier	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chandelier	amod
11	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chandelier	compound
12	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ting	conj
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 rose	advmod
14	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 least	case
16	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 half	nmod
17	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	19 yard	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 yard	det
19	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 disappeared	cc
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rose	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 tub	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tub	det
24	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disappeared	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sign	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sign	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 sign	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sign	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sign	det
30	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 going	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 play	det
33	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 going	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sign	acl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 begin	mark
37	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise in a quote	past	Ting ting and the little iron chandelier	half yard		suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme
2	disappear in a quote	past	Ting ting and the little iron chandelier not said here		the tub		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	that	the sign			tree rules
4	go in a quote	past · progressive	the play	the sign not said here			tree rules
5	begin in a quote	to-infinitive	the play not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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