Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 61
The counsellor supposed from this that she did not understand Danish; he therefore repeated his request in German.
Who acts: woman, counsellor · What happens: suppose, not understand, repeat, request · To what, where: counsellor, this, Danish, request, German
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 (woman, counsellor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 counsellor | det |
| 2 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 counsellor | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 supposed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 understand | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 understand | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understand | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 understand | advmod |
| 10 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 supposed | advcl |
| 11 | Danish | Danish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 understand | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 repeated | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 repeated | nsubj |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 repeated | advmod |
| 15 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 request | nmod:poss |
| 17 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repeated | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 German | case |
| 19 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 repeated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | participle | the counsellor not said here | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | woman | Danish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer danish=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | repeat | past | the counsellor | Counsellor's request | German | therefore property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | request | Counsellor | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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