Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 91
"No," answered the man, "it is not by Heiberg; Godfred von Gehman brought it out."
Who acts: man, table, Godfred · What happens: answer, not be, bring out · To what, where: table · 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, table, Godfred), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | 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 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Heiberg | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Heiberg | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Heiberg | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Heiberg | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Heiberg | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Heiberg | case |
| 14 | Heiberg | Heiberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 16 | Godfred | Godfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 16 Godfred | flat |
| 18 | Gehman | Gehman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Godfred | flat |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 brought | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | table | by Heiberg | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring out in a quote | past | Godfred | table | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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