Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 50
Astonished at what he saw, the Councillor asked what was the meaning of all this mummery, and who that man was.
Who acts: Councillor, meaning · What happens: astonish, see, ask, be, mean · To what, where: mummery · 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, 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 | Astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Astonished | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Councillor | det |
| 8 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meaning | det |
| 13 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mummery | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 mummery | det:predet |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 mummery | det |
| 17 | mummery | mummery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meaning | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 was | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Astonished | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | Councillor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Councillor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the meaning of all mummery | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | mean | all mummery | 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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