Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 15
As the clothes were being carried into the hall, the shilling fell out on the floor, unheard and unnoticed by any one.
Who acts: shilling · What happens: carry, fall out · To what, where: clothes, hall, floor
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 carried | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clothes | det |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 carried | aux:pass |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fell | advcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shilling | det |
| 12 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 fell | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unheard | punct |
| 19 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fell | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 unnoticed | cc |
| 21 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 unheard | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unheard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the clothes | the hall | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall out | past | the shilling | the floor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
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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