Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 59
"'Lucky shilling!' said she, 'certainly this is what I mean to try.'
Who acts: Lucky shilling, this · What happens: say, be, mean, try · 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 (Lucky shilling, this), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 shilling | punct |
| 3 | Lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shilling | amod |
| 4 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shilling | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 shilling | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 11 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 14 what | advmod |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 what | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 try | mark |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mean | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | past | Lucky shilling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | Lucky shilling = shilling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Lucky shilling = shilling not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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