Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 112

What is this? what does it mean?" said he; but he was obliged to drink with them, for they overpowered the good man with their politeness.

Who acts: this, shiver, Counsellor, maids · What happens: be, mean, say, oblige, drink, overpower · To what, where: Counsellor, good man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this, shiver, Counsellor, maids), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 mean	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 mean	obj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mean	nsubj
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 obliged	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 obliged	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 obliged	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 obliged	aux:pass
17	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 drink	mark
19	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 obliged	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drink	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 overpowered	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 overpowered	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 overpowered	nsubj
25	overpowered	overpower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 obliged	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 overpowered	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 politeness	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 politeness	nmod:poss
31	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this			tree rules
2	mean	present · do-support	shiver			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Counsellor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	oblige in a quote	past · passive		Counsellor		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	drink in a quote	to-infinitive			with maids = maid	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	overpower in a quote	past	maids = maid	the good man	with maids's politeness	tree rules

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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