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title: "At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experime… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments, and then I formed a part of his audience. Who acts: lecturer, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 11

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"At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments, and then I formed a part of his audience.

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**Who acts:** lecturer, man · **What happens:** commence, form, lecture, experiment · **To what, where:** lecture, nine o'clock, part

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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 (lecturer, man), 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:pg27200:152:11
# text = "At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments, and then I formed a part of his audience.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lecture	lecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** *in a quote* | past | the lecturer | lecturer's lecture and lecturer's experiments |  | nine o'clock |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Eventuality |
| 2 | **form** *in a quote* | past | man | a part of lecturer's audience |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 3 | **lecture** *in a quote* |  | lecturer |  |  |  |  |  | nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **experiment** *in a quote* |  | lecturer |  |  |  |  |  | nom experiment «act intransitive»: 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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