Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 35
The little ones twirled round like tops, and the large ones rolled away as far as they could, especially the one great silver crown piece who had often to go out into the world, and now he had his wish as well as all the rest of the money.
Who acts: one great crown piece, play · What happens: twirl, roll away, go out, have, wish · To what, where: little ones, large ones, world, wish
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one great crown piece, play), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ones | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | twirled | twirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ones | acl |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 twirled | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 tops | case |
| 7 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 twirled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ones | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ones | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ones | conj |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ones | acl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 rolled | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 rolled | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 could | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 far | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 piece | punct |
| 21 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 27 piece | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 piece | det |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 piece | nummod |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 piece | amod |
| 25 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crown | compound |
| 26 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 piece | compound |
| 27 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 could | appos |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 go | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 30 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 piece | acl:relcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 had | cc |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 had | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ones | parataxis |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wish | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 49 rest | cc |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 as | fixed |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 as | fixed |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 rest | det:predet |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 rest | det |
| 49 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 money | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 money | det |
| 52 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 rest | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twirl | participle | the little ones and the large ones not said here | like tops; round property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll away | participle | the large ones not said here | away, far property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the one great crown piece | the world | often, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | have | past | play | play's wish | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 5 | wish | play | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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