Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 18
Ah," thought the shilling, "this is pleasant; I shall now see the world, become acquainted with other people, and learn other customs."
Who acts: this, I · What happens: think, be, see, become, learn · To what, where: shilling, world, other customs · 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 (this, I), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shilling | det |
| 6 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleasant | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleasant | punct |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 pleasant | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleasant | cop |
| 11 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pleasant | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 become | punct |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | conj |
| 21 | acquainted | acquainted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 become | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 acquainted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 learn | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 learn | cc |
| 27 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | conj |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 customs | amod |
| 29 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 learn | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleasant | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the shilling | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shilling=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | this | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | shall | I | the world | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | become | infinitive | I not said here | acquainted property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | learn | infinitive | I not said here | other customs | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=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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