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title: "When all was ready for the first representation, the whole company… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "When all was ready for the first representation, the whole company requested permission to speak to me before appearing in public. Who acts: all, whole company. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 44

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"When all was ready for the first representation, the whole company requested permission to speak to me before appearing in public.

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**Who acts:** all, whole company · **What happens:** be, request, speak, appear · **To what, where:** permission, puppets, public · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (all, whole company), 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:pg27200:152:44
# text = "When all was ready for the first representation, the whole company requested permission to speak to me before appearing in public.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | all |  |  |  |  | for the first representation; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **request** *in a quote* | participle | the whole company *not said here* | permission |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the whole company *not said here* | permission *not said here* | puppets *= puppet* |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **appear** *in a quote* | gerund | the whole company *not said here* |  |  | public |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in public=Location |

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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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