Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 4
The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little copper, and considered itself quite out in the world when it had been circulated for a year in the country in which it had been coined.
Who acts: shilling · What happens: make, contain, consider, circulate, coin · To what, where: shilling, little copper, world, 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 (shilling), 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 shilling | det |
| 2 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 silver | case |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 contained | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 contained | nsubj |
| 9 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 copper | amod |
| 12 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contained | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 considered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 considered | cc |
| 15 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 contained | conj |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 considered | obj |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 out | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 considered | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 considered | obl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 circulated | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 circulated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 circulated | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 circulated | aux:pass |
| 26 | circulated | circulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 considered | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 year | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 year | det |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 circulated | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 country | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 country | det |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 circulated | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 coined | obl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 coined | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 coined | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 coined | aux:pass |
| 38 | coined | coin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 country | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the shilling | of silver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | contain | past | shilling | little copper | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot copper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consider | past | shilling not said here | shilling | the world | out property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent itself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||
| 4 | circulate | past · perfect · passive | shilling | the country | year | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | coin | past · perfect · passive | shilling | the country | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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