Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 37
"Either I behold a fata morgana, or I must be tipsy," groaned the counsellor. "
Who acts: moon, I · What happens: behold, be, groan · To what, where: fata morgana, counsellor
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 (moon, I), 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 | _ | 4 behold | punct |
| 2 | Either | either | CCONJ | _ | 4 behold | cc:preconj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 behold | nsubj |
| 4 | behold | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 morgana | det |
| 6 | fata | fata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 morgana | compound |
| 7 | morgana | morgana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 behold | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tipsy | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 tipsy | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tipsy | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tipsy | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tipsy | cop |
| 13 | tipsy | tipsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 behold | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 groaned | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 groaned | punct |
| 16 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tipsy | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 counsellor | det |
| 18 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 groaned | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 behold | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 behold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold in a quote | present | moon | a fata morgana | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morgana=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | moon | tipsy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | groan | past | I not said here | the counsellor | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent counsellor=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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