Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 30

Oh, I must contrive to get lost, thought I. And I trembled between the fingers of the people every time they tried to pass me off slyly as a coin of the country.

Who acts: I, people · What happens: contrive, lose, think, tremble, try, pass off · To what, where: fingers, time, me, country

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 (I, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 contrive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 contrive	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 contrive	aux
5	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 lost	mark
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 contrive	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lost	conj
11	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	xcomp
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 trembled	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 trembled	nsubj
14	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	conj
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 fingers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fingers	det
17	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 trembled	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fingers	nmod
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trembled	obl:unmarked
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tried	nsubj
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pass	mark
26	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pass	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	26 pass	compound:prt
29	slyly	slyly	ADV	_	26 pass	advmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 coin	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 coin	det
32	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pass	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 country	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 country	det
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coin	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 contrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	must	I					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lose	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
3	think speech: other	participle	I not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tremble	past	I		the fingers of the people	time		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between finger=Location
5	try	past	people	every time not said here				tree rules
6	pass off not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here	me			as a coin of the country; slyly property	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Duration as coin=Attribute
7	coin			the country				nom coin «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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