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title: If he went to a theatre of an evening, instead of enjoying himself h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 26

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If he went to a theatre of an evening, instead of enjoying himself he would be quite annoyed if the machinist had put too strong a light into one side of the moon, or if the representations of the sky hung over the scenes when they ought to have hung behind them; or if a palm-tree was introduced into a scene representing the Zoological Gardens of Berlin, or a cactus in a view of Tyrol, or a beech-tree in the north of Norway.

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**Who acts:** man, representations · **What happens:** go, enjoy, be, put, hang, introduce · **To what, where:** theatre, man, machinist, one side, scenes, representations

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, representations), 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:pg27200:16:26
# text = If he went to a theatre of an evening, instead of enjoying himself he would be quite annoyed if the machinist had put too strong a light into one side of the moon, or if the representations of the sky hung over the scenes when they ought to have hung behind them; or if a palm-tree was introduced into a scene representing the Zoological Gardens of Berlin, or a cactus in a view of Tyrol, or a beech-tree in the north of Norway.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	machinist	machinist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	representations	representation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
52	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	_
53	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
56	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
57	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
64	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
67	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	70	amod	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	compound	_	_
70	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	66	appos	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
74	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
75	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	appos	_	_
77	in	in	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	nmod	_	_
80	of	of	ADP	IN	_	81	case	_	_
81	Tyrol	Tyrol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	79	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	87	punct	_	_
83	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	87	cc	_	_
84	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	87	det	_	_
85	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	87	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	85	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	conj	_	_
88	in	in	ADP	IN	_	90	case	_	_
89	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	90	det	_	_
90	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	87	nmod	_	_
91	of	of	ADP	IN	_	92	case	_	_
92	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	90	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
93	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  | a theatre of a evening |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **enjoy** | gerund | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | would | man |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the machinist |  | one side of the moon |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 5 | **hang** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the representations of the sky |  |  | the scenes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over scene=Location |
| 6 | **hang** | ought · perfect · passive |  | representations *= representation* |  |  |  | behind scenes *= scene* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind they=Destination |
| 7 | **introduce** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | a palm tree |  | a scene |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **represent** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **represent** |  |  | the sky |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **view** |  |  | Tyrol |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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