Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 69
"A year passed, and in this way I had been changed from hand to hand; always abused, always looked at with displeasure, and trusted by no one; but I trusted in myself, and had no confidence in the world.
Who acts: Everything · What happens: pass, change, abuse, look, trust, have · To what, where: Everything, way, confidence, world
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 (Everything), 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 | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 changed | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 changed | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 changed | aux:pass |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 abused | punct |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 abused | advmod |
| 20 | abused | abuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 looked | advmod |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 displeasure | case |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 displeasure | case |
| 26 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trusted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trusted | cc |
| 29 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 looked | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trusted | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 trusted | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 trusted | cc |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 trusted | nsubj |
| 36 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 myself | case |
| 38 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 trusted | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 had | cc |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 trusted | conj |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 confidence | det |
| 43 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 world | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 world | det |
| 46 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 confidence | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | participle | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change in a quote | past · perfect · passive | Everything | this way | from hand; to hand | tree rules | |||
| 3 | abuse in a quote | participle | always property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | past | at displeasure; always property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at displeasure=Theme | |||||
| 5 | trust in a quote | participle | by no one | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | trust in a quote | past | Everything | in Everything | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | past | Everything not said here | no confidence | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient |
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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