Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 115

“Oh no,” answered the Councillor, “I can only join in conversation on this topic and on that, as indeed one must do according to the demands of the world at present.”

Who acts: Councillor, one · What happens: answer, join, do, accord, demand · To what, where: conversation, that, world · 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, one), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 answered	discourse
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Councillor	det
8	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 join	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 join	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 join	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 join	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 join	advmod
14	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 conversation	case
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 join	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 topic	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 topic	det
19	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 join	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 do	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	26 one	advmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 do	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 join	conj
29	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 demands	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 according	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 demands	det
32	demands	demand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 demands	nmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 present	case
37	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Councillor				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join in a quote	can	the Councillor = councillor		conversation	on this topic	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on topic=Theme
3	do in a quote	must	one		that	accord the demands of the world; at present	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	accord in a quote	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	demand in a quote			the world			nom demand «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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