Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 96
The counsellor thought he referred to the cholera, and they could discuss this without finding out the mistake.
Who acts: counsellor, citizens · What happens: think, refer, discuss, find out · To what, where: this, mistake · 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, citizens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 counsellor | det |
| 2 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 referred | nsubj |
| 5 | referred | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cholera | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cholera | det |
| 8 | cholera | cholera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 referred | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 discuss | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 discuss | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discuss | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 discuss | aux |
| 13 | discuss | discuss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 discuss | obj |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 finding | mark |
| 16 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 discuss | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 finding | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mistake | det |
| 19 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the counsellor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | refer | past | Counsellor | to the cholera | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to cholera=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | discuss speech: other | could | citizens = citizen | this | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find out | gerund | citizens = citizen not said here | the mistake | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic |
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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