Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 93
That is a very old name," said the counsellor; "was it not the name of the first publisher in Denmark?"
Who acts: That, name · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: old name, counsellor, name · 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 (That, name), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 name | amod |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 counsellor | det |
| 11 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 name | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 name | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 name | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 name | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 name | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 publisher | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 publisher | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 publisher | amod |
| 22 | publisher | publisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 name | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Denmark | case |
| 24 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 publisher | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 publisher | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 publisher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a old name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the counsellor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent counsellor=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | name | the name | of the first publisher in Denmark | tree rules |
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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