Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 60

Then she laid me in vinegar till I became quite green, and after that she filled up the hole with cement, rubbed me a little to brighten me up, and went out in the twilight hour to the lottery collector, to buy herself a ticket, with a shilling that should bring luck.

Who acts: string, I, shilling · What happens: lay, become, fill up, rub, brighten up, go out · To what, where: me, vinegar, hole, string, luck

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 (string, I, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laid	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 laid	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 vinegar	case
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 became	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	advcl
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 green	advmod
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 filled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 filled	cc
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 filled	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 filled	nsubj
17	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 filled	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hole	det
20	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 cement	case
22	cement	cement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hole	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rubbed	punct
24	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 rubbed	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rubbed	obl:unmarked
28	to	to	PART	_	29 brighten	mark
29	brighten	brighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 rubbed	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 brighten	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 brighten	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 went	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 hour	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hour	det
38	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hour	compound
39	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 collector	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 collector	det
42	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 collector	compound
43	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 buy	punct
45	to	to	PART	_	46 buy	mark
46	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 went	conj
47	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 buy	obj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 ticket	det
49	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 buy	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 shilling	punct
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 shilling	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 shilling	det
53	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ticket	appos
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 bring	nsubj
55	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 bring	aux
56	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 shilling	acl:relcl
57	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bring	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	string	me		vinegar	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in vinegar=Destination
2	become	past	I					green property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fill up	past	string	the hole			after that	with cement	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hole=Patient with cement=Instrument
4	rub	past	string not said here		me			a little obl:unmarked	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination
5	brighten up	to-infinitive	string not said here	me					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	go out	past					hour	to the lottery collector	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	buy	to-infinitive		string					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary ticket=Theme
8	bring	should	a shilling	luck					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

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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