Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 72

Those who sat near him, and heard what he said, looked at him in great astonishment, and one of them rose, took off his hat respectfully, and said in a very serious manner, "You must certainly be a very learned man, monsieur."

Who acts: Those, meteor, one, You · What happens: sit, hear, say, look, rise, take off · To what, where: great astonishment, hat, serious manner, learned man · 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 (Those, meteor, one, You), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 sat	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heard	cc
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 heard	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 astonishment	case
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 astonishment	amod
18	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rose	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rose	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 rose	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rose	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 took	compound:prt
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hat	nmod:poss
29	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
30	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 manner	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 manner	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 serious	advmod
37	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 manner	amod
38	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 manner	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 man	punct
41	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 man	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 man	aux
43	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	48 man	advmod
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 man	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 man	det
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 learned	advmod
47	learned	learned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 man	amod
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	ccomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 monsieur	punct
50	monsieur	monsieur	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 man	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 man	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Those			near meteor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location
2	hear	past	Those not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	meteor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	Those not said here		great astonishment	at meteor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	rise	past	one of houses				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take off	past	one of houses not said here	meteor's hat		respectfully property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	Those not said here		a serious manner		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in manner=Manner
8	is a in a quote	must	You	a learned man and monsieur		certainly property	tree rules

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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