Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 52
Yes, I will make a hole in the shilling,' said she, 'and run a string through it, and then give it to my neighbor's little one to hang round her neck, as a lucky shilling.'
Who acts: I, remark · What happens: make, say, run, give, hang · To what, where: hole, shilling, string, little one, neck · 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 (I, remark), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shilling | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shilling | det |
| 10 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 run | cc |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 string | det |
| 20 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 run | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 give | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 give | advmod |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 30 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 one | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 neighbor | case |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 one | amod |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 hang | mark |
| 35 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 one | acl |
| 36 | round | round | ADP | _ | 38 neck | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 neck | nmod:poss |
| 38 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hang | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 shilling | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 shilling | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 shilling | det |
| 42 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 shilling | amod |
| 43 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | a hole | the shilling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | remark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | remark not said here | a string | shilling | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent string=Theme through it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | give | infinitive | hole | my neighbor's little one | then | as a lucky shilling | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Recipient | ||
| 5 | hang | to-infinitive | remark's neck | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round neck=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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