Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 3

The children held it with warm hands, the miser with a cold and convulsive grasp, and the old people turned it about, goodness knows how many times, while the young people soon allowed it to roll away from them.

Who acts: children, old people, goodness, young people, shilling · What happens: hold, turn, know, allow, roll away · To what, where: 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: who acts (children, old people, goodness, young people), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 miser	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 miser	det
10	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hands	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	16 grasp	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 grasp	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grasp	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 convulsive	cc
15	convulsive	convulsive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cold	conj
16	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 miser	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 held	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turned	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knows	punct
26	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knows	nsubj
27	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 many	advmod
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 times	amod
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knows	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 allowed	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 allowed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 people	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 allowed	nsubj
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 allowed	advmod
37	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knows	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 allowed	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 roll	mark
40	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 allowed	xcomp
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 roll	advmod
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 roll	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the children	shilling		with warm hands and the miser with a cold grasp	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	turn	past	the old people	shilling		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	know	present	goodness		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	allow	past	the young people	shilling		soon property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	roll away not said to happen	to-infinitive	shilling not said here			from people; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory

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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