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title: Punctually at eight o'clock my performance closed, for children must… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Punctually at eight o'clock my performance closed, for children must go early to bed, and a manager must also consult the convenience of the public. Who acts: children, manager, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 10

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Punctually at eight o'clock my performance closed, for children must go early to bed, and a manager must also consult the convenience of the public.

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**Who acts:** children, manager, my · **What happens:** close, go, consult, perform · **To what, where:** performance, bed, convenience

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, manager, my), 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:pg27200:152:10
# text = Punctually at eight o'clock my performance closed, for children must go early to bed, and a manager must also consult the convenience of the public.
1	Punctually	punctually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	manager	manager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	convenience	convenience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle |  | my performance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | must | children |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **consult** | must | a manager | the convenience of the public |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent convenience=Theme |
| 4 | **perform** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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