Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 32
Of what use were my silver, my stamp, and my real value here, where all these qualities were worthless.
Who acts: silver, qualities, my · What happens: use, be, value · To what, where: stamp
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 (silver, qualities, my), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stamp | obl |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stamp | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 silver | nmod:poss |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stamp | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stamp | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stamp | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 value | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 value | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 value | nmod:poss |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 value | amod |
| 14 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stamp | parataxis |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 value | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worthless | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 worthless | advmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 qualities | det:predet |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 qualities | det |
| 20 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 worthless | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 worthless | cop |
| 22 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stamp | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stamp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | my silver | my stamp | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all qualities | worthless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | value | my | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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