Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 17
Then he shook his head and said, "It cannot possibly be the bishop himself."
Who acts: gentleman, head · What happens: shake, say, not be · To what, where: head, bishop · 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, head), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shook | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bishop | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bishop | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bishop | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bishop | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 bishop | advmod |
| 13 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 16 bishop | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bishop | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bishop | det |
| 16 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 bishop | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | gentleman | gentleman's head | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | gentleman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | can | head | the bishop | gentleman nmod:unmarked; possibly property | 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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