Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 16

The next morning the clothes were taken back to the room, the gentleman put them on, and started on his journey again; but the shilling remained behind on the floor.

Who acts: gentleman, shilling · What happens: take back, put on, start, remain, journey · To what, where: clothes, journey, 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 (gentleman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clothes	det
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 taken	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gentleman	det
14	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 started	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 started	cc
20	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 journey	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 journey	nmod:poss
23	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 started	obl
24	again	again	ADV	_	20 started	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 remained	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 remained	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shilling	det
28	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	nsubj
29	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 taken	conj
30	behind	behind	ADV	_	29 remained	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past · passive		the clothes		morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	put on	infinitive	the gentleman	clothes				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
3	start	past			gentleman's journey	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	remain	participle	the shilling		the floor		behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
5	journey		gentleman					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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