Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 58
"Pardon me," said the counsellor, addressing the landlady, "I do not feel quite well, and I should be much obliged if you will send for a fly to take me to Christian's Haven."
Who acts: counsellor, you · What happens: pardon, say, address, not feel, oblige, send · To what, where: counsellor, landlady, Haven · 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 (counsellor, you), 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 | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 2 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Pardon | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counsellor | det |
| 8 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 addressing | punct |
| 10 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 landlady | det |
| 12 | landlady | landlady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 addressing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 feel | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 feel | advmod |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 addressing | advcl |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 obliged | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 obliged | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 obliged | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 obliged | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 obliged | aux:pass |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 obliged | advmod |
| 27 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 send | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 send | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 send | aux |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 obliged | advcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 fly | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fly | det |
| 34 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 send | advcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Haven | case |
| 39 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Haven | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Christian | case |
| 41 | Haven | Haven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | infinitive | the counsellor = counsellor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the counsellor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | address | gerund | the counsellor not said here | the landlady | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landlady=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not feel in a quote | present · do-support | the counsellor = counsellor | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | oblige in a quote | should · passive | the counsellor = counsellor | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | send a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | for a fly | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the counsellor = counsellor | Christian's Haven | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to haven=Destination |
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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