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title: The hero of the piece would only play in a part containing points li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hero of the piece would only play in a part containing points likely to bring down the applause of the house. Who acts: hero, containing. 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 48

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The hero of the piece would only play in a part containing points likely to bring down the applause of the house.

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**Who acts:** hero, containing · **What happens:** play, contain, bring down · **To what, where:** part, points, applause

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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 (hero, containing), 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:pg27200:152:48
# text = The hero of the piece would only play in a part containing points likely to bring down the applause of the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
13	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | would | the hero of the piece |  |  | a part |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund |  | points |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot point=Theme |
| 3 | **bring down** | to-infinitive | containing | the applause of the house |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent applause=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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