Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 1

There was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint springing and shouting, "Hurrah! now I am going out into the wide world."

Who acts: shilling, mint · What happens: be, come, spring, shout, go out · To what, where: mint, Hurrah, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shilling, mint), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shilling	det
5	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shilling	acl:relcl
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mint	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mint	det
12	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 mint	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shouting	cc
15	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 springing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Hurrah	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Hurrah	punct
18	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 springing	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 Hurrah	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 going	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
27	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 world	amod
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a shilling		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a shilling		the mint		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mint=Initial_Location
3	spring	gerund	the mint not said here	Hurrah				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hurrah=Theme
4	shout speech: express	gerund	the mint not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go out in a quote	present · progressive	the mint = mint		the wide world	now	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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