Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 12
The Councillor boldly declared the time of King Hans to be the noblest and the most happy period.
Who acts: Councillor · What happens: declare, be
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), 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 | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 declared | advmod |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | flat |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 noblest | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 noblest | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 noblest | det |
| 13 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 time | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 period | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 period | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 happy | advmod |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 period | amod |
| 18 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noblest | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the Councillor | time | boldly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | noble property | tree rules |
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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