Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 2
Through the magic power of the goloshes, he was at once carried back three hundred years, to the times of King Hans, for which he had been longing when he put them on.
Who acts: Counsellor · What happens: carry, long, put on · To what, where: Counsellor, magic power, Hans
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 power | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 power | det |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 power | amod |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 goloshes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goloshes | det |
| 7 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 power | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 carried | obl |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 hundred | advmod |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 times | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 times | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 times | det |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Hans | case |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Hans | compound |
| 24 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 times | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 longing | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 longing | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 longing | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 longing | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 longing | aux |
| 31 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 carried | advcl |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 put | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 put | nsubj |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 longing | advcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 put | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 put | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | Counsellor | the magic power of the goloshes | time; year | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | long | past · perfect · progressive | Counsellor | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put on | past | Counsellor | Hans = han | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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