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title: The counsellor supposed from this that she did not understand Danish… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The counsellor supposed from this that she did not understand Danish; he therefore repeated his request in German. Who acts: woman, counsellor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 61

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The counsellor supposed from this that she did not understand Danish; he therefore repeated his request in German.

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**Who acts:** woman, counsellor · **What happens:** suppose, not understand, repeat, request · **To what, where:** counsellor, this, Danish, request, German

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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 (woman, counsellor), 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:pg27200:41:61
# text = The counsellor supposed from this that she did not understand Danish; he therefore repeated his request in German.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	Danish	Danish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | participle |  | the counsellor *not said here* |  | this |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | woman | Danish |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer danish=Stimulus |
| 3 | **repeat** | past | the counsellor | Counsellor's request |  | German |  | therefore *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 4 | **request** |  | Counsellor |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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