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title: It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in thought about the times o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in thought about the times of King Hans, desired to return home; and fate so ordered it that he put on the goloshes of Fortune instead of his own, and walked out into the East Street. Who acts: It, Counsellor, fate. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 1

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It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in thought about the times of King Hans, desired to return home; and fate so ordered it that he put on the goloshes of Fortune instead of his own, and walked out into the East Street.

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**Who acts:** It, Counsellor, fate · **What happens:** be, lose, desire, return, order, put · **To what, where:** thought, King Hans, goloshes, East Street

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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 (It, Counsellor, fate), 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:pg27200:41:1
# text = It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in thought about the times of King Hans, desired to return home; and fate so ordered it that he put on the goloshes of Fortune instead of his own, and walked out into the East Street.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Counsellor	Counsellor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Knapp	Knapp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
43	out	out	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | Counsellor |  |  | thought about the times of King Hans |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
| 3 | **desire** | participle |  | King Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **order** | past | fate | thought |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | past | fate |  |  | the goloshes of Fortune |  | instead fate's own | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on golosh=Destination |
| 7 | **walk out** | past |  |  |  | the East Street |  | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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