Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 75
Now this is singular,' said he, 'it is a coin from my own country; a good, true, shilling from home.
Who acts: this, smile, face · What happens: be, say, shill · To what, where: coin, own country, home · 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 (this, smile, face), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 singular | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 singular | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 singular | cop |
| 4 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 singular | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 singular | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 singular | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 coin | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 coin | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 coin | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 coin | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coin | det |
| 14 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 country | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coin | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 shilling | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shilling | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shilling | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 true | punct |
| 23 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 good | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shilling | punct |
| 25 | shilling | shill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 singular | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shilling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 singular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this | now | singular property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | face | a coin | my own country | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shill | gerund | home | tree rules |
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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