Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 83

"Oh yes," replied the counsellor; "I am very fond of reading useful old books, and modern ones as well, with the exception of every-day stories, of which we really have more than enough.

Who acts: counsellor, we · What happens: reply, be, read, have, except · To what, where: useful old books, more, day stories · 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, we), 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	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	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 fond	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fond	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fond	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fond	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 fond	advmod
14	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	conj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 reading	mark
16	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fond	advcl
17	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 books	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 books	amod
19	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reading	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ones	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ones	cc
22	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reading	conj
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	23 ones	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 exception	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 exception	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 exception	det
29	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reading	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 stories	case
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 day	det
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 every	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stories	compound
34	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 exception	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 have	nmod
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
39	really	really	ADV	_	40 have	advmod
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 exception	parataxis
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 have	obj
42	than	than	ADP	_	43 enough	case
43	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 more	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the counsellor			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the counsellor = counsellor		fond property	tree rules
3	read in a quote	gerund	the counsellor = counsellor not said here	useful old books		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	we	more	of the exception of day stories	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
5	except in a quote			day stories		nom exception «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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