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title: The acting was wonderful, excepting that sometimes they came out bey… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The acting was wonderful, excepting that sometimes they came out beyond the lamps, because the wires were a little too long. Who acts: acting, characters, wires. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 27

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The acting was wonderful, excepting that sometimes they came out beyond the lamps, because the wires were a little too long.

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**Who acts:** acting, characters, wires · **What happens:** be, except, come out

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acting, characters, wires), 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:pg27200:90:27
# text = The acting was wonderful, excepting that sometimes they came out beyond the lamps, because the wires were a little too long.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	acting	acting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the acting |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **except** | gerund | the acting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** | past | characters *= character* |  |  |  |  | beyond the lamps; out, sometimes *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the wires |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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