Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 100
The good bachelor appeared very ignorant, for the simplest remark of the counsellor seemed to him either too bold or too fantastic.
Who acts: good bachelor, simplest remark · What happens: appear, seem, remark · To what, where: Counsellor
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 (good bachelor, simplest remark), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bachelor | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bachelor | amod |
| 3 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 ignorant | advmod |
| 6 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appeared | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 remark | det |
| 10 | simplest | simple | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 remark | amod |
| 11 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 counsellor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 counsellor | det |
| 14 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remark | nmod |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | obl |
| 18 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 bold | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 bold | advmod |
| 20 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 fantastic | cc |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 fantastic | advmod |
| 23 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bold | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the good bachelor | ignorant property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the simplest remark of the counsellor | Counsellor | bold property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | remark | the counsellor | nom remark «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: «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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