Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 110

“That is very old!” said the Councillor, whom this piece of antiquity began to make considerably more cheerful.

Who acts: That, old, Councillor · What happens: be, say, piece, begin, make · 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 (That, old, Councillor), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 old	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Councillor	det
10	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 piece	punct
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 piece	nsubj
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 piece	det
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Councillor	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 antiquity	case
16	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 cheerful	advmod
22	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That	old property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	old		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	piece		the Councillor	of antiquity	tree rules
4	begin	past	the Councillor		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	make	to-infinitive	the Councillor not said here	cheerful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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