Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 55
A string was drawn through the hole, and I became a kind of medal.
Who acts: I · What happens: draw, become · To what, where: string, hole, kind
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 string | det |
| 2 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | aux:pass |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 medal | case |
| 15 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | a string | the hole | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | I | a kind of medal | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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