Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 99

The rest of the talk, however, was not so agreeable; every moment one contradicted the other.

Who acts: rest, moment · What happens: not be, contradict · To what, where: other

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 (rest, moment), 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 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 agreeable	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 talk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 talk	det
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rest	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	12 agreeable	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 agreeable	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 agreeable	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 agreeable	advmod
12	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 contradicted	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contradicted	nsubj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moment	flat
17	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 agreeable	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 contradicted	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 agreeable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the rest of the talk					agreeable, however property	tree rules
2	contradict	past	every moment	the other					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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