Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 108
The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
Who acts: meaning · What happens: remain, hand, reply, mean · To what, where: riddle, paper, connection, councillorship query
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 (meaning), 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 meaning | det |
| 2 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 query | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 query | det |
| 5 | councillorship | councillorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 query | compound |
| 6 | query | query | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meaning | nmod |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 of | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 remained | obl |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 of | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 riddle | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 riddle | det |
| 13 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 riddle | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 handed | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 handed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 handed | nsubj |
| 19 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remained | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 handed | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 paper | det |
| 22 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 handed | obj |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 replying | mark |
| 24 | replying | reply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 handed | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the meaning of this councillorship query | a riddle to woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | meaning | the paper | connection | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination paper=Theme | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | gerund | meaning not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | this councillorship query | nom meaning «communication 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: «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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