Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 89
"Well, I have certainly not read that," replied the counsellor. "
Who acts: counsellor · What happens: not read, reply · To what, where: that · 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), 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 | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 read | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 read | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | aux |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 read | advmod |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 read | advmod |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 read | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 counsellor | det |
| 14 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read in a quote | present | the counsellor = counsellor | that | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the counsellor | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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