Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 73
The traveller examined me attentively, 'I took thee for good coin,' said he; then suddenly a smile spread all over his face.
Who acts: traveller, I, smile · What happens: examine, take, say, spread · To what, where: me, thee, face · 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 (traveller, I, smile), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 traveller | det |
| 2 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 examined | nsubj |
| 3 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 examined | obj |
| 5 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 3 examined | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 examined | parataxis |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 coin | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coin | amod |
| 13 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 spread | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 spread | advmod |
| 20 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 spread | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 smile | det |
| 22 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spread | nsubj |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 examined | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 face | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 face | nmod:poss |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spread | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | the traveller | me | attentively property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | I | thee | for good coin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for coin=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spread | past | a smile | traveller's face | then | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=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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