Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 71
"At length one day I was passed to a traveller, a foreigner, the very same who had brought me away from home; and he was simple and true-hearted enough to take me for current coin.
Who acts: foreigner · What happens: pass, bring away, be, take · To what, where: Everything, traveller, home
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 (foreigner), 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 | _ | 18 same | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 same | obl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 length | flat |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 length | conj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | aux:pass |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 traveller | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 traveller | det |
| 11 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 foreigner | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 foreigner | det |
| 14 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 length | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 length | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 same | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 same | advmod |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 same | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 brought | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 simple | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 simple | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 simple | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 simple | cop |
| 30 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 same | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hearted | cc |
| 32 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hearted | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 true | punct |
| 34 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 simple | conj |
| 35 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 34 hearted | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 take | mark |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hearted | advcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 coin | case |
| 40 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 coin | amod |
| 41 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | past · passive | Everything | a traveller | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to traveller=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bring away in a quote | past · perfect · passive | Everything | home | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | foreigner | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | foreigner not said here | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | foreigner not said here | Everything | for current coin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for coin=Beneficiary |
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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