Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 80
"This is surely," thought he, "an old village schoolmaster, a perfect original, such as one meets with sometimes even in Jutland."
Who acts: This, one · What happens: be, think, meet · To what, where: Counsellor · 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 (This, 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 | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 surely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 surely | cop |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 surely | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 schoolmaster | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 schoolmaster | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 schoolmaster | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 schoolmaster | amod |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 schoolmaster | compound |
| 14 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 original | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 original | det |
| 17 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 original | amod |
| 18 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 schoolmaster | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meets | punct |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 22 one | case |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 meets | nsubj |
| 23 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 schoolmaster | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Jutland | case |
| 25 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 Jutland | advmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 Jutland | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Jutland | case |
| 28 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 meets | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 schoolmaster | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 schoolmaster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Counsellor | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | present | one | with Jutland | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jutland=Co-Agent |
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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