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title: Counsellor Knapp defended this opinion so warmly that the lady of th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Counsellor Knapp defended this opinion so warmly that the lady of the house immediately went over to his side, and both exclaimed against Oersted's Essays on Ancient and Modern Times, in which the preference is given to our own. Who acts: Counsellor, lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 5

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Counsellor Knapp defended this opinion so warmly that the lady of the house immediately went over to his side, and both exclaimed against Oersted's Essays on Ancient and Modern Times, in which the preference is given to our own.

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**Who acts:** Counsellor, lady · **What happens:** defend, go over, exclaim, give · **To what, where:** opinion, preference, own

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counsellor, lady), 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:pg27200:40:5
# text = Counsellor Knapp defended this opinion so warmly that the lady of the house immediately went over to his side, and both exclaimed against Oersted's Essays on Ancient and Modern Times, in which the preference is given to our own.
1	Counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Knapp	Knapp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	defended	defend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Oersted	Oersted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	Essays	Essay	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	Times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defend** | past | Counsellor | this opinion |  |  |  | warmly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **go over** | past | the lady of the house |  |  |  |  | to Counsellor's side; immediately, over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  | time | against Oersted's Essays | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | present · passive |  | the preference | our own |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to own=Recipient |

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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:** «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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