Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 5
One day, it really did go out into the world, for it belonged to a gentleman who was about to travel in foreign lands.
Who acts: shilling, gentleman · What happens: go out, belong, be, travel · To what, where: world, foreign lands
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, gentleman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 belonged | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 belonged | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 belonged | nsubj |
| 15 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 gentleman | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gentleman | det |
| 18 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 belonged | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 about | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 about | cop |
| 21 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 travel | mark |
| 23 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 about | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 lands | case |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lands | amod |
| 26 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 travel | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · do-support | shilling | the world | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | belong | past | shilling | to a gentleman | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a gentleman | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | a gentleman not said here | foreign lands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory |
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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