Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 11
The counsellor stared with astonishment as he beheld a most strange procession pass before him.
Who acts: counsellor · What happens: stare, behold · To what, where: strange procession pass
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 (counsellor), 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 | 2 counsellor | det |
| 2 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 astonishment | case |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 beheld | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | nsubj |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pass | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 strange | advmod |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pass | amod |
| 12 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pass | compound |
| 13 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the counsellor | with astonishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Counsellor | a strange procession pass | before moon | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pass=Stimulus |
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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