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title: The counsellor thought he referred to the cholera, and they could di… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The counsellor thought he referred to the cholera, and they could discuss this without finding out the mistake. Who acts: counsellor, citizens. 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 96

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The counsellor thought he referred to the cholera, and they could discuss this without finding out the mistake.

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**Who acts:** counsellor, citizens · **What happens:** think, refer, discuss, find out · **To what, where:** this, mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, citizens), 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:pg27200:41:96
# text = The counsellor thought he referred to the cholera, and they could discuss this without finding out the mistake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	referred	refer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cholera	cholera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the counsellor |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **refer** | past | Counsellor |  |  |  |  | to the cholera | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to cholera=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* | could | citizens *= citizen* | this |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 4 | **find out** | gerund | citizens *= citizen* *not said here* | the mistake |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic |

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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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