Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 80
I had been once more called a good, honest shilling, and I was to go back to my own home, where each and all would recognize me, and know that I was made of good silver, and bore a true, genuine stamp.
Who acts: I, each · What happens: call, be, recognize, know, make, bear · To what, where: I, me, true genuine stamp · 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 (I, each), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 called | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shilling | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shilling | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 10 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shilling | amod |
| 11 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 called | advcl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 home | amod |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 recognize | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 recognize | advmod |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 recognize | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 all | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 each | conj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 recognize | aux |
| 29 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 home | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 recognize | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 know | cc |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 made | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 made | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 made | aux:pass |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 know | ccomp |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 silver | case |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 silver | amod |
| 40 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 bore | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 bore | cc |
| 43 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 stamp | det |
| 45 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 stamp | amod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 true | punct |
| 47 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 stamp | amod |
| 48 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bore | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · perfect · passive | I | once property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | to my own home; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recognize | would | each | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | I | of good silver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | bear | past | a true genuine stamp | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stamp=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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