Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 66

"Is that to-day's number of the Day?" he asked, quite mechanically, as he saw the woman putting by a large piece of paper.

Who acts: Counsellor, woman · What happens: be, ask, see, put · To what, where: day number, Day, woman · 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, woman), 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	_	8 number	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 number	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 number	det
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 to	punct
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 number	compound
7	's	's	PART	_	6 day	case
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Day	det
11	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 number	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 Day	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Day	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Day	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mechanically	punct
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 mechanically	advmod
18	mechanically	mechanically	ADV	_	15 asked	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 saw	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mechanically	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 woman	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 piece	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 piece	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 piece	amod
29	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 putting	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 paper	case
31	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 piece	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 number	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		that day number	of the Day		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Counsellor	the Day not said here		mechanically property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent day=Recipient
3	see	past	Counsellor	the woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	put	gerund	the woman not said here			by a large piece of paper	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by piece=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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