Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 21
Now begins the story as it was afterwards related by the shilling himself.
What happens: begin, relate · To what, where: story, shilling
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 begins | advmod |
| 2 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begins | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 related | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 related | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 related | aux:pass |
| 8 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 related | advmod |
| 9 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 begins | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 shilling | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shilling | det |
| 12 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 related | obl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 shilling | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the story | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | relate | past · passive | shilling | by the shilling gentleman; afterwards property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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