Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 115
One might believe that the country was going back to heathenism," he observed. "
Who acts: One, country · What happens: believe, go back, observe · 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 (One, country), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | aux |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 heathenism | case |
| 11 | heathenism | heathenism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 observed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 observed | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 observed | nsubj |
| 15 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | might | One | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go back | past · progressive | the country | to heathenism result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heathenism=Result | ||||
| 3 | observe in a quote | past | country | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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