Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 63
She soon understood, however, that he did not find himself quite well, and therefore brought him a mug of water.
Who acts: woman, German · What happens: understand, not find, bring · To what, where: German, mug
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, German), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 understood | advmod |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 understood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 find | advmod |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 understood | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 find | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 17 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mug | det |
| 21 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mug | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | woman | however, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · do-support | German | German | well property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | bring | past | woman not said here | a mug of water | German | therefore property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination mug=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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