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title: There was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint springing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint springing and shouting, "Hurrah! now I am going out into the wide world." Who acts: shilling, mint. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 1

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There was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint springing and shouting, "Hurrah! now I am going out into the wide world."

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**Who acts:** shilling, mint · **What happens:** be, come, spring, shout, go out · **To what, where:** mint, Hurrah, wide world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shilling, mint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:167:1
# text = There was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint springing and shouting, "Hurrah! now I am going out into the wide world."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a shilling |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a shilling |  |  | the mint |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mint=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **spring** | gerund | the mint *not said here* | Hurrah |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hurrah=Theme |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the mint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go out** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the mint *= mint* |  |  | the wide world | now | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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