Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 9
Many weeks passed, during which the shilling had travelled a long distance in the purse, without in the least knowing where he was.
Who acts: Many weeks, shilling, gentleman · What happens: pass, travell, know, be · To what, where: long distance, purse · 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 (Many weeks, shilling, gentleman), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weeks | amod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 travelled | punct |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 travelled | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shilling | det |
| 8 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travelled | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 travelled | aux |
| 10 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distance | amod |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travelled | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 purse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 purse | det |
| 16 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 distance | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knowing | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 knowing | mark |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 knowing | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 least | det |
| 21 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 knowing | advmod |
| 22 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 travelled | advcl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 was | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knowing | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Many weeks | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travell | past · perfect | the shilling | a long distance | the purse | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | the shilling not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | gentleman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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