Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 6

This gentleman was not aware that the shilling lay at the bottom of his purse when he started, till he one day found it between his fingers. "

Who acts: gentleman, shilling · What happens: not be, lay, start, find · To what, where: bottom, shilling

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 (gentleman, shilling), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aware	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 aware	advmod
5	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lay	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shilling	det
8	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 bottom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bottom	det
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 purse	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 purse	nmod:poss
15	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bottom	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 started	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 started	nsubj
18	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 found	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl:unmarked
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	obj
26	between	between	ADP	_	28 fingers	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fingers	nmod:poss
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 found	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 aware	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 aware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this gentleman				aware property	tree rules
2	lay	present	the shilling		the bottom of gentleman's purse			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at bottom=Destination
3	start	past	gentleman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	find	past	gentleman	shilling		day	between gentleman's fingers	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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