Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 38

I was to the woman a most unlucky shilling. '

Who acts: I · What happens: be

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shilling	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 unlucky	advmod
8	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shilling	amod
9	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					to the woman; a unlucky shilling nmod	tree rules

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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