Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 98
The English pirates had taken some ships in the Channel in 1801, and the counsellor, supposing they referred to these, agreed with them in finding fault with the English.
Who acts: pirates · What happens: take, suppose, refer, agree, find · To what, where: English pirates, 1801, fault · 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 (pirates), 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 | 3 pirates | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pirates | amod |
| 3 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 ships | det |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Channel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Channel | det |
| 10 | Channel | Channel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ships | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1801 | case |
| 12 | 1801 | 1801 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 taken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 counsellor | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 counsellor | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 counsellor | det |
| 16 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 supposing | punct |
| 18 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 taken | conj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 referred | nsubj |
| 20 | referred | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 supposing | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 these | case |
| 22 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 referred | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 agreed | punct |
| 24 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 taken | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 agreed | obl |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 finding | mark |
| 28 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 agreed | advcl |
| 29 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 finding | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 English | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 English | det |
| 32 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 fault | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the English pirates | 1801 | the counsellor obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme ship=Destination | |||
| 2 | suppose | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | refer | past | pirates = pirate | to these | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to this=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | participle | with pirates = pirate | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | fault | with the English | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=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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