Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 5
Counsellor Knapp defended this opinion so warmly that the lady of the house immediately went over to his side, and both exclaimed against Oersted's Essays on Ancient and Modern Times, in which the preference is given to our own.
Who acts: Counsellor, lady · What happens: defend, go over, exclaim, give · To what, where: opinion, preference, own
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counsellor, lady), 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 | Counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defended | nsubj |
| 2 | Knapp | Knapp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Counsellor | appos |
| 3 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 opinion | det |
| 5 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defended | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 warmly | advmod |
| 7 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 3 defended | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lady | nmod |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 defended | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exclaimed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 exclaimed | cc |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 exclaimed | advmod |
| 23 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 defended | parataxis |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 Essays | case |
| 25 | Oersted | Oersted | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Essays | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Oersted | case |
| 27 | Essays | Essay | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 exclaimed | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Times | case |
| 29 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Times | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Modern | cc |
| 31 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Ancient | conj |
| 32 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 exclaimed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 given | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 given | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 preference | det |
| 37 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 given | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 given | aux:pass |
| 39 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 exclaimed | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 own | case |
| 41 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 own | nmod:poss |
| 42 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 given | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 defended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defend | past | Counsellor | this opinion | warmly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | go over | past | the lady of the house | to Counsellor's side; immediately, over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | time | against Oersted's Essays | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | present · passive | the preference | our own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to own=Recipient |
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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