Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 57
"In the morning the child's mother took me between her fingers, and had certain thoughts about me, which I very soon found out.
What happens: take, have, find out · To what, where: remark, certain thoughts
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 child | case |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | iobj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 fingers | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thoughts | amod |
| 18 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 thoughts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 found | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 found | advmod |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 thoughts | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 found | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | remark | morning | between string's fingers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | certain thoughts | about remark | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | participle · passive | certain thoughts | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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