Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 119
The counsellor now saw quite plainly a lamp, and a large building behind it; everything looked familiar and beautiful.
Who acts: counsellor, everything · What happens: see, look · To what, where: lamp
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, everything), 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 | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 plainly | advmod |
| 6 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lamp | det |
| 8 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 building | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 building | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 building | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 building | amod |
| 13 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 building | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | cc |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 familiar | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the counsellor | a lamp | now | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | look | past | everything | familiar property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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