Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 3
So clever was he, that every shilling he put out brought him a crown; and so he continued till he died.
Who acts: merchant, shilling · What happens: be, put out, bring, continue, die · To what, where: shilling, crown, merchant
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, shilling), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 clever | advmod |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clever | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 shilling | det |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 shilling | det |
| 8 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shilling | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clever | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crown | det |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 continued | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 continued | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 continued | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 continued | nsubj |
| 20 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clever | parataxis |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 died | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 died | nsubj |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 continued | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | clever property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put out | past | merchant | that shilling not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shilling=Goal | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | that shilling | a crown | merchant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination crown=Theme | |||
| 4 | continue | past | merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die | past | merchant | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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