Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 44

The woman offered me to the rich baker, but he knew the current money too well, and as soon as he received me he threw me almost in the woman's face.

Who acts: woman, baker · What happens: offer, know, receive, throw · To what, where: me, rich baker, current money, face

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, baker), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 offered	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 baker	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baker	det
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baker	amod
8	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 money	det
14	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 money	amod
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knew	obj
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 knew	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 threw	cc
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 threw	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 received	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 received	nsubj
24	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 soon	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 received	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 threw	nsubj
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 threw	obj
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 face	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 face	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woman	det
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 face	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 woman	case
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 threw	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past	the woman		me		to the rich baker goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent i=Theme to baker=Goal
2	know	past	baker	the current money			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
3	receive	past	baker	me				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	throw	past	baker	me		the woman's face	soon property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in face=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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