Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 86
"Oh," replied the man, with a smile; "and yet they are very witty, and are much read at Court.
Who acts: man, men · What happens: reply, be, read · To what, where: Court · 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 (man, men), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smile | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 smile | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 witty | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 witty | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 witty | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 witty | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 witty | advmod |
| 19 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 read | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 read | cc |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 read | aux:pass |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 read | advmod |
| 24 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Court | case |
| 26 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 read | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man and a smile | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | men = man | yet | witty property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | read in a quote | present · passive | the man and a smile not said here | Court | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: at court=Value |
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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