Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 66
"Whether the lottery ticket gained a prize, I know not; but this I know, that in a very few days after, I was recognized as a bad shilling, and laid aside.
Who acts: lottery ticket, remark · What happens: gain, not know, know, recognize, lay · To what, where: prize, this, remark · 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 (lottery ticket, remark), 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 | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 2 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 gained | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ticket | det |
| 4 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ticket | compound |
| 5 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | nsubj |
| 6 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prize | det |
| 8 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gained | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gained | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 this | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 this | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 know | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 this | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 recognized | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 recognized | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 few | advmod |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 days | amod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 recognized | obl |
| 25 | after | after | ADV | _ | 24 days | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 days | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 recognized | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 recognized | aux:pass |
| 29 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 know | ccomp |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 shilling | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 shilling | det |
| 32 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shilling | amod |
| 33 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 recognized | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 laid | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 laid | cc |
| 36 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 recognized | conj |
| 37 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 36 laid | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain in a quote | past | the lottery ticket | a prize | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present | remark | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | remark | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | recognize in a quote | past · passive | remark | day | as a bad shilling | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as shilling=Attribute | |||
| 5 | lay in a quote | participle | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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