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title: "'Ting-ting!' and the little iron chandelier suddenly rose at least… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Ting-ting!' and the little iron chandelier suddenly rose at least half a yard and disappeared in the tub; and that was the sign that the play was going to begin. Who acts: Ting ting, that, play. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 5

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"'Ting-ting!' and the little iron chandelier suddenly rose at least half a yard and disappeared in the tub; and that was the sign that the play was going to begin.

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**Who acts:** Ting ting, that, play · **What happens:** rise, disappear, be, go, begin · **To what, where:** yard, tub, sign

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (Ting ting, that, play), 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:pg27200:95:5
# text = "'Ting-ting!' and the little iron chandelier suddenly rose at least half a yard and disappeared in the tub; and that was the sign that the play was going to begin.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nmod	_	_
17	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** *in a quote* | past | Ting ting and the little iron chandelier | half yard |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** *in a quote* | past | Ting ting and the little iron chandelier *not said here* |  |  | the tub |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | that | the sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the play | the sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the play *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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