Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 25

"The Professor was a true man," said the Count, "and would be a privy councillor before he died, it was not at all unlikely; and he might build a real castle for the young lady before that time came: why not?"

Who acts: Professor, true man, Count, time · What happens: be, say, die, not be, build, come · To what, where: true man, Count, privy councillor, all, real castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Professor, true man, Count, time), 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	_	7 man	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Professor	det
3	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Count	det
12	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Count	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Count	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 councillor	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 councillor	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 councillor	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 councillor	det
19	privy	privy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 councillor	amod
20	councillor	councillor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Count	conj
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 died	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 unlikely	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 unlikely	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 unlikely	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 unlikely	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 unlikely	obl
30	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 build	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 build	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 build	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 build	aux
35	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 castle	det
37	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 castle	amod
38	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 build	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 lady	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lady	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lady	amod
42	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 build	obl
43	before	before	SCONJ	_	46 came	mark
44	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 time	det
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	nsubj
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 build	advcl
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 why	punct
48	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 said	parataxis
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 ?	advmod
50	?	?	PUNCT	_	48 why	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the Professor	a true man			tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	a true man	the Count and a privy councillor			tree rules
3	is a in a quote	would	a true man not said here	a privy councillor			tree rules
4	die in a quote	past	Count				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not is in a quote	past			all	unlikely property	tree rules
6	build in a quote	might	Count	a real castle		for the young lady	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent castle=Product for lady=Beneficiary
7	come in a quote	past	that time				vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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