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title: "When the performance was over, and the puppets removed behind the c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "When the performance was over, and the puppets removed behind the curtain, the Polytechnic lecturer invited me into his room to take a glass of wine. Who acts: performance, puppets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 18

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"When the performance was over, and the puppets removed behind the curtain, the Polytechnic lecturer invited me into his room to take a glass of wine.

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**Who acts:** performance, puppets · **What happens:** be, remove, invite, take · **To what, where:** puppets, curtain, man, room, glass

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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 (performance, puppets), 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:pg27200:152:18
# text = "When the performance was over, and the puppets removed behind the curtain, the Polytechnic lecturer invited me into his room to take a glass of wine.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	puppets	puppet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the performance |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remove** *in a quote* | participle |  | the puppets *not said here* |  | the curtain and the Polytechnic lecturer |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **invite** *in a quote* | past | the puppets |  | man | lecturer's room |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the puppets *not said here* | a glass of wine |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=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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