--- title: Then the counsellor leaned his head on his hand, drew a deep breath,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the counsellor leaned his head on his hand, drew a deep breath, and pondered over all the strange things that had happened to him. Who acts: counsellor, strange things. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [What Happened to the Counsellor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/) / 65 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 65 Then the counsellor leaned his head on his hand, drew a deep breath, and pondered over all the strange things that had happened to him. **Who acts:** counsellor, strange things · **What happens:** learn, draw, ponder, happen · **To what, where:** head, hand, deep breath, strange things, Counsellor 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, strange things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:41:65 # text = Then the counsellor leaned his head on his hand, drew a deep breath, and pondered over all the strange things that had happened to him. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 leaned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pondered ponder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | the counsellor | Counsellor's head | | Counsellor's hand | then | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | | 2 | **draw** | past | | a deep breath | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 3 | **ponder** | participle | | | | all strange things | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **happen** | past · perfect | all strange things | | Counsellor | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/66/) - ↑ back to [What Happened to the Counsellor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/)