--- title: A little iron chandelier hung beneath the ceiling, and that it might… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A little iron chandelier hung beneath the ceiling, and that it might be made to disappear into the ceiling, as it does in great theatres, when the ting-ting of the prompter's bell is heard, a great inverted tub has been placed just above it. Who acts: little iron chandelier, chandelier. 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C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little iron chandelier, chandelier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:95:4 # text = A little iron chandelier hung beneath the ceiling, and that it might be made to disappear into the ceiling, as it does in great theatres, when the ting-ting of the prompter's bell is heard, a great inverted tub has been placed just above it. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 chandelier chandelier NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 disappear disappear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 theatres theatre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 ting ting NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ting ting NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 prompter prompter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 inverted invert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 49 just just ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 above above ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | past | a little iron chandelier | | | the ceiling | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath ceiling=Location | | 2 | **make** | might · passive | | chandelier | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **disappear** | to-infinitive | chandelier *not said here* | | | the ceiling | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present | chandelier | | | great theatres | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** | present · passive | | the ting ting of the prompter's bell | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 6 | **invert** | participle | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **place** | present · perfect · passive | | a great inverted tub | | theatre | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above it=Destination | | 8 | **ting** | | | the prompter's bell | | | | | nom ting «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/5/) - ↑ back to [Fourth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/)