Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 65
Then the counsellor leaned his head on his hand, drew a deep breath, and pondered over all the strange things that had happened to him.
Who acts: counsellor, strange things · What happens: learn, draw, ponder, happen · To what, where: head, hand, deep breath, strange things, 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 (counsellor, strange things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leaned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 counsellor | det |
| 3 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaned | nsubj |
| 4 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaned | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaned | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 breath | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breath | amod |
| 14 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pondered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pondered | cc |
| 17 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 drew | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 things | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 things | det |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pondered | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happened | aux |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 things | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 happened | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the counsellor | Counsellor's head | Counsellor's hand | then | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||
| 2 | draw | past | a deep breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ponder | participle | all strange things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | all strange things | Counsellor | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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