Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 1
It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in thought about the times of King Hans, desired to return home; and fate so ordered it that he put on the goloshes of Fortune instead of his own, and walked out into the East Street.
Who acts: It, Counsellor, fate · What happens: be, lose, desire, return, order, put · To what, where: thought, King Hans, goloshes, East Street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Counsellor, fate), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | cop |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 5 | Counsellor | Counsellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | Knapp | Knapp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Counsellor | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 late | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 thought | case |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 times | det |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hans | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hans | compound |
| 16 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 times | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 desired | punct |
| 18 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Hans | acl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 return | mark |
| 20 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 desired | xcomp |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 return | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 ordered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ordered | cc |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ordered | nsubj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 ordered | advmod |
| 26 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ordered | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 put | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ordered | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 goloshes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 goloshes | det |
| 33 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 put | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Fortune | case |
| 35 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 goloshes | nmod |
| 36 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 39 own | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 instead | fixed |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 own | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 put | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 walked | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 walked | cc |
| 42 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | parataxis |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 walked | advmod |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 Street | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Street | det |
| 46 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Street | compound |
| 47 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 walked | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | Counsellor | thought about the times of King Hans | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | desire | participle | King Hans not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | order | past | fate | thought | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put | past | fate | the goloshes of Fortune | instead fate's own | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on golosh=Destination | |||
| 7 | walk out | past | the East Street | out property | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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