Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 103
The Councillor thought she did not understand Danish, and therefore repeated his wish in German.
Who acts: Councillor, woman · What happens: think, not understand, repeat, wish · To what, where: Danish, wish, German · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Councillor, woman), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Councillor | det |
| 2 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | Danish | Danish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 understand | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 repeated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 repeated | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 repeated | advmod |
| 12 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repeated | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 German | case |
| 16 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 repeated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Councillor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | woman | Danish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer danish=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | repeat | participle | the Councillor not said here | Councillor's wish | German | therefore property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | wish | Councillor | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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