Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 19

I throw shillings and pence among the people; I give balls, no less than thirty-one; indeed, that is the highest number I can spare for balls.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: throw, give, be, spare · To what, where: shillings, balls, highest number

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	2 throw	nsubj
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pence	cc
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shillings	conj
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
11	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 throw	conj
12	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 less	punct
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 less	advmod
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	19 one	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 less	fixed
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 thirty	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 give	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 throw	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 number	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 number	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 number	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 number	det
26	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 number	amod
27	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throw	parataxis
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 spare	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 spare	aux
30	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 number	acl:relcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 balls	case
32	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 spare	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	present	I	shillings and pence	among the people; indeed property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shilling=Theme among people=Destination
2	give	present	I	balls	thirty one obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	is a	present	that	the highest number		tree rules
4	spare	can	I	the highest number not said here	for balls	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent number=Asset

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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