Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 17
After a time it was found, and being considered a good coin, was placed with three other coins. "
Who acts: time · What happens: find, consider, place · To what, where: shilling, good coin
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 (time), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 considered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 considered | cc |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 considered | aux:pass |
| 10 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coin | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coin | amod |
| 13 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 considered | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | aux:pass |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 coins | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 coins | nummod |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coins | amod |
| 20 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | a time not said here | shilling | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | consider | gerund · passive | a time not said here | a good coin | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | time | with three other coins | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP» |
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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