Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 64
I well knew how proud they were, so I avoided them from very shame.
Who acts: I, coins · What happens: know, be, avoid · To what, where: proud, coins, shame · 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, coins), 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 | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 proud | advmod |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 were | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 proud | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 avoided | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 avoided | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 avoided | nsubj |
| 11 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 avoided | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 shame | case |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 shame | advmod |
| 15 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 avoided | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | proud | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer proud=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | be | past | coins = coin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | avoid | past | I | coins = coin | shame | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location |
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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