Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 6
The counsellor considered the times of the Danish king, Hans, as the noblest and happiest.
Who acts: counsellor · What happens: consider
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:2936): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 counsellor | det |
| 2 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 times | det |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 considered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | Danish | Danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hans | punct |
| 11 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hans | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 noblest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noblest | det |
| 15 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happiest | cc |
| 17 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 noblest | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the counsellor | time | noble property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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