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title: The counsellor now saw quite plainly a lamp, and a large building be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The counsellor now saw quite plainly a lamp, and a large building behind it; everything looked familiar and beautiful. Who acts: counsellor, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 119

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The counsellor now saw quite plainly a lamp, and a large building behind it; everything looked familiar and beautiful.

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**Who acts:** counsellor, everything · **What happens:** see, look · **To what, where:** lamp

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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 (counsellor, everything), 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:pg27200:41:119
# text = The counsellor now saw quite plainly a lamp, and a large building behind it; everything looked familiar and beautiful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | **see** | past | the counsellor | a lamp |  |  | now | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | familiar *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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