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title: The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a ridd… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying. Who acts: meaning. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 108

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The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.

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**Who acts:** meaning · **What happens:** remain, hand, reply, mean · **To what, where:** riddle, paper, connection, councillorship query

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:5:108
# text = The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	councillorship	councillorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	query	query	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
10	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	replying	reply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the meaning of this councillorship query | a riddle to woman |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hand** | past | meaning | the paper | connection |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination paper=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | gerund | meaning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** |  |  | this councillorship query |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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