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title: "I once heard of an actor, who, when he had to act the part of a lov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I once heard of an actor, who, when he had to act the part of a lover, always thought of one particular lady in the audience; he only played for her, and forgot all the rest of the house, and now the Polytechnic lecturer was my she, my only auditor, for whom alone I played. Who acts: man, lecturer,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 17

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"I once heard of an actor, who, when he had to act the part of a lover, always thought of one particular lady in the audience; he only played for her, and forgot all the rest of the house, and now the Polytechnic lecturer was my she, my only auditor, for whom alone I played.

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**Who acts:** man, lecturer, Polytechnic lecturer · **What happens:** hear, have, act, think, play, forget · **To what, where:** part, rest, only auditor

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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 (man, lecturer, Polytechnic lecturer), 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:pg27200:152:17
# text = "I once heard of an actor, who, when he had to act the part of a lover, always thought of one particular lady in the audience; he only played for her, and forgot all the rest of the house, and now the Polytechnic lecturer was my she, my only auditor, for whom alone I played.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	actor	actor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	Polytechnic	polytechnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
53	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	auditor	auditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	64	obj	_	_
62	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
63	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | man |  |  |  |  | of a actor; once *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of actor=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | lecturer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **act** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | lecturer *not said here* | the part of a lover |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle |  | the part of a lover *not said here* |  |  |  | of one particular lady in the audience; always *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **play** *in a quote* | past | lecturer |  |  |  |  | for audience | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for she=Eventuality |
| 6 | **forget** *in a quote* | past | man *not said here* | all rest of the house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the Polytechnic lecturer | my only auditor |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **play** *in a quote* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |

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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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