Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 136
The Councillor imagined it was the cholera that was meant, which people made so much fuss about; and the discourse passed off satisfactorily enough.
Who acts: Councillor, pestilence, cholera, discourse · What happens: imagine, be, mean, make, pass off · To what, where: cholera, much fuss
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, pestilence, cholera, discourse), 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 imagined | nsubj |
| 3 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cholera | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cholera | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cholera | det |
| 7 | cholera | cholera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagined | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meant | aux:pass |
| 10 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cholera | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cholera | parataxis |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fuss | amod |
| 17 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 passed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 discourse | det |
| 22 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagined | parataxis |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 passed | compound:prt |
| 25 | satisfactorily | satisfactorily | ADV | _ | 23 passed | advmod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 passed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past | the Councillor | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | pestilence | the cholera | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | past · passive | the cholera | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the cholera | much fuss | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product | ||||
| 5 | pass off | past | the discourse | enough, satisfactorily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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