Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 67

She did not understand what he meant, but she handed him the sheet; it was a woodcut, representing a meteor, which had appeared in the town of Cologne.

Who acts: woman, Counsellor, sheet, woodcut, meteor · What happens: not understand, mean, hand, be, represent, appear · To what, where: sheet, Counsellor, woodcut, meteor, town

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, sheet, woodcut), 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	4 understand	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 understand	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meant	nsubj
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 handed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 handed	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 handed	nsubj
11	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 handed	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sheet	det
14	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handed	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 woodcut	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 woodcut	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 woodcut	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woodcut	det
19	woodcut	woodcut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 representing	punct
21	representing	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 woodcut	acl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 meteor	det
23	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 representing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 appeared	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 appeared	aux
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 meteor	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 town	det
30	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Cologne	case
32	Cologne	Cologne	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 town	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	mean	past	Counsellor				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	hand	past	woman	the sheet	Counsellor		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination sheet=Theme
4	is a	past	sheet	a woodcut			tree rules
5	represent	gerund	a woodcut not said here	a meteor			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meteor=Theme
6	appear	past · perfect	a meteor			the town of Cologne	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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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