Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 14
In his eagerness, he came so near the edge of the purse that he slipped out into the pocket of the trousers; and when, in the evening, the purse was taken out, the shilling was left behind in the corner to which it had fallen.
Who acts: man, purse · What happens: come, slip out, take out, leave behind, fall · To what, where: eagerness, pocket, purse, shilling, corner
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 (man, purse), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 eagerness | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eagerness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eagerness | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 purse | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 purse | det |
| 13 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 slipped | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slipped | nsubj |
| 16 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 slipped | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 pocket | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pocket | det |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slipped | obl | ||
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trousers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trousers | det |
| 23 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pocket | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 taken | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 taken | cc |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 taken | mark |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 evening | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 evening | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 evening | det |
| 30 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 evening | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 purse | det |
| 33 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 taken | aux:pass |
| 35 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | parataxis |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 taken | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 left | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 shilling | det |
| 39 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 left | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 left | aux:pass |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 taken | conj |
| 42 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 41 left | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 corner | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 corner | det |
| 45 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 left | obl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 fallen | obl |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fallen | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 fallen | aux |
| 50 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 corner | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | man's eagerness | near the edge of the purse | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eagerness=Location | |||
| 2 | slip out | past | man | the pocket of the trousers | out property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | take out | past · passive | the purse | evening | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave behind | past · passive | the shilling | the corner | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in corner=Location | |||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | purse | to the corner | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=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.
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