Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 83
I was wrapped up in fine, white paper, that I might not mix with the other coins and be lost; and on special occasions, when people from my own country happened to be present, I was brought forward and spoken of very kindly.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: wrap up, not mix, lose, happen, be, bring forward · To what, where: I, fine white paper · 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, people), 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 | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paper | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paper | amod |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mix | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 mix | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mix | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 mix | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mix | advmod |
| 15 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 coins | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coins | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coins | amod |
| 19 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mix | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lost | cc |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mix | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 occasions | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 occasions | cc |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 occasions | case |
| 26 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 occasions | amod |
| 27 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happened | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 happened | advmod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 country | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 country | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 country | amod |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 people | nmod |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 occasions | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 present | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 present | cop |
| 38 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 happened | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 brought | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 brought | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 brought | aux:pass |
| 42 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 43 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 42 brought | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 spoken | cc |
| 45 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 brought | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 kindly | case |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 kindly | advmod |
| 48 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 45 spoken | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past · passive | I | fine white paper | on special occasions | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in paper=Destination | |||
| 2 | not mix | might | I | with the other coins | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with coin=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | people from my own country | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | people from my own country not said here | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring forward | past · passive | I | forward property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | participle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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