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title: The prompter's bell sounded; 'the hero enters with a determined air,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The prompter's bell sounded; 'the hero enters with a determined air,' so ran the stage direction in his part, and he had to appear before an audience who turned him into ridicule. Who acts: bell, hero, audience. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 9

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The prompter's bell sounded; 'the hero enters with a determined air,' so ran the stage direction in his part, and he had to appear before an audience who turned him into ridicule.

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**Who acts:** bell, hero, audience · **What happens:** sound, enter, run, have, appear, turn · **To what, where:** stage direction, part, audience, hero, ridicule

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bell, hero, audience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:109:9
# text = The prompter's bell sounded; 'the hero enters with a determined air,' so ran the stage direction in his part, and he had to appear before an audience who turned him into ridicule.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prompter	prompter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | the prompter's bell |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **enter** | present | the hero |  |  |  |  | with a determined air | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | the hero *not said here* | the stage direction |  | hero's part |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent direction=Theme in part=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | past | hero |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **appear** | to-infinitive | hero *not said here* |  |  | a audience |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before audience=Location |
| 6 | **turn** | past | a audience | hero |  | ridicule |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into ridicule=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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