Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 87
Joy again overwhelmed me; for was I not good silver, and had I not a genuine stamp?
Who acts: Joy, I · What happens: overwhelm, not be, have · To what, where: me, I
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 (Joy, I), 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 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 overwhelmed | advmod |
| 3 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | 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 overwhelmed | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 silver | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 silver | case |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 silver | cop |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 silver | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 silver | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 silver | amod |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overwhelmed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overwhelmed | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stamp | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stamp | det |
| 18 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stamp | amod |
| 19 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 overwhelmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwhelm | past | Joy | me | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not is | past | I | for good silver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Joy not said here | I | a genuine stamp obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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