Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 63
I had been called false, I had been thrown away,--that I knew; and there were many shillings and coins with inscriptions and stamps of all kinds lying about.
Who acts: I, many shillings, kinds · What happens: call, throw away, know, be, lie · To what, where: I · 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 (I, many shillings, kinds), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thrown | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thrown | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 thrown | aux:pass |
| 10 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 called | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 thrown | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thrown | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 were | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | parataxis |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shillings | amod |
| 22 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 were | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 coins | cc |
| 24 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shillings | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 inscriptions | case |
| 26 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 coins | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stamps | cc |
| 28 | stamps | stamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inscriptions | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 kinds | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 kinds | det |
| 31 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stamps | nmod |
| 32 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 kinds | acl |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 lying | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | I | false property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | throw away | past · perfect · passive | I | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | be | past | many shillings and coins with inscriptions and stamps of all kinds | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | all kinds not said here | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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