Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 88
He has joked about it with the gentlemen of his Court."
Who acts: king · What happens: joke
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 (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joked | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 joked | aux |
| 3 | joked | joke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joked | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gentlemen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gentlemen | det |
| 8 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 joked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Court | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gentlemen | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 joked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present · perfect | king | about table; with the gentlemen of king's Court | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic with gentleman=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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