Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 10
He had found out that the other coins were French and Italian; and one coin said they were in this town, and another said they were in that, but the shilling was unable to make out or imagine what they meant.
Who acts: gentleman, other coins, one coin, coins, shilling · What happens: find out, be, say, make out, imagine, mean · To what, where: town, another, that · 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 (gentleman, other coins, one coin, coins), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 found | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 French | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coins | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coins | amod |
| 8 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 French | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 French | cop |
| 10 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Italian | cc |
| 12 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 French | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 coin | nummod |
| 16 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 town | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 town | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 said | obj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 that | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 that | cop |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 said | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 unable | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 unable | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shilling | det |
| 34 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 unable | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 unable | cop |
| 36 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 said | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 make | mark |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 unable | xcomp |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 make | compound:prt |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 imagine | cc |
| 41 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 make | conj |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 meant | obj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 meant | nsubj |
| 44 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 imagine | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past · perfect | gentleman | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the other coins | french property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the other coins not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | one coin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | coins = coin | this town | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | one coin not said here | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is | past | coins = coin | that | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | past | the shilling | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | make out | to-infinitive | the shilling not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | imagine | infinitive | the shilling not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 11 | mean | past | coins = coin | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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