Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 4

"Why, this is horrible; how dreadfully dirty it is!" said the counsellor; "and the whole pavement has vanished, and the lamps are all out."

Who acts: this, foot, counsellor, whole pavement, lamps · What happens: be, dirty, say, vanish · 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 (this, foot, counsellor, whole pavement), 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	_	6 horrible	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 horrible	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 horrible	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horrible	cop
6	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 dirty	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dirty	advmod
9	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	10 dirty	advmod
10	dirty	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horrible	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dirty	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horrible	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 counsellor	det
17	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 vanished	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pavement	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pavement	amod
23	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vanished	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 vanished	aux
25	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 horrible	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 out	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 out	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lamps	det
29	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 out	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 out	cop
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 out	advmod
32	out	out	ADV	_	25 vanished	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this	horrible property	tree rules
2	dirty in a quote	present	this not said here	dreadfully property	tree rules
3	be in a quote	present	foot		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	the counsellor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	vanish in a quote	present · perfect	the whole pavement		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	the lamps	all, out 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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