Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 16
"Good gracious!" he exclaimed; "what in the world has happened to the bishop? what can he be thinking about?"
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: exclaim, happen, think about · 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 (gentleman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gracious | amod |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | obl |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bishop | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bishop | det |
| 18 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 thinking | obj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 thinking | aux |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thinking | nsubj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thinking | aux |
| 24 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 happened | parataxis |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 thinking | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | gentleman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | to the bishop | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think about speech: other in a quote | can · progressive | gentleman | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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