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title: The good bachelor appeared very ignorant, for the simplest remark of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The good bachelor appeared very ignorant, for the simplest remark of the counsellor seemed to him either too bold or too fantastic. Who acts: good bachelor, simplest remark. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 100

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The good bachelor appeared very ignorant, for the simplest remark of the counsellor seemed to him either too bold or too fantastic.

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**Who acts:** good bachelor, simplest remark · **What happens:** appear, seem, remark · **To what, where:** Counsellor

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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 (good bachelor, simplest remark), 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:pg27200:41:100
# text = The good bachelor appeared very ignorant, for the simplest remark of the counsellor seemed to him either too bold or too fantastic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	simplest	simple	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **appear** | past | the good bachelor |  |  |  |  | ignorant *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the simplest remark of the counsellor |  | Counsellor |  |  | bold *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remark** |  |  | the counsellor |  |  |  |  | nom remark «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:** «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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