Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 73
"Oh no," replied the counsellor; "I can only discourse on topics which every one should understand."
Who acts: counsellor, one · What happens: reply, discourse, understand · To what, where: topics · 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, one), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counsellor | det |
| 8 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 discourse | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 discourse | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 discourse | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 discourse | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 discourse | advmod |
| 14 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 topics | case |
| 16 | topics | topic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 discourse | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 understand | obj |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 understand | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 understand | aux |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 topics | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the counsellor | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | discourse in a quote | can | the counsellor = counsellor | topics | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand in a quote | should | every one | topics | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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