Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 68
"That is very old," said the counsellor, becoming quite cheerful at the sight of this antique drawing. "
Who acts: That, old · What happens: be, say, become, sight · To what, where: counsellor, antique drawing · 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 (That, old), 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 | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 counsellor | det |
| 10 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 becoming | punct |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 cheerful | advmod |
| 14 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 becoming | xcomp |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sight | det |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cheerful | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 drawing | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 drawing | det |
| 20 | antique | antique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 drawing | amod |
| 21 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cheerful | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 becoming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | old | the counsellor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent counsellor=Topic | ||||
| 3 | become | gerund | old not said here | cheerful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sight | this antique drawing | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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