Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 39

I am positively obliged to pass this shilling to somebody,' said she; 'I cannot, with the best intentions, lay by a bad shilling.

Who acts: woman · What happens: oblige, pass, say, lay · To what, where: I, shilling, somebody · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman), 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	4 obliged	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
3	positively	positively	ADV	_	4 obliged	advmod
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pass	mark
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 shilling	det
8	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pass	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 somebody	case
10	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 pass	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 can	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 can	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	conj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 can	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 intentions	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 intentions	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 intentions	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 intentions	amod
24	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obliged	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 intentions	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 shilling	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shilling	det
29	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shilling	amod
30	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		I		with the best intentions; positively property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	pass	to-infinitive		this shilling	somebody		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shilling=Theme to somebody=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present				by a bad shilling	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by shilling=Destination

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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