--- title: The children held it with warm hands, the miser with a cold and conv… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The children held it with warm hands, the miser with a cold and convulsive grasp, and the old people turned it about, goodness knows how many times, while the young people soon allowed it to roll away from them. Who acts: children, old people, goodness, young people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Silver Shilling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 3 The children held it with warm hands, the miser with a cold and convulsive grasp, and the old people turned it about, goodness knows how many times, while the young people soon allowed it to roll away from them. **Who acts:** children, old people, goodness, young people, shilling · **What happens:** hold, turn, know, allow, roll away · **To what, where:** shilling 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 (children, old people, goodness, young people), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:167:3 # text = The children held it with warm hands, the miser with a cold and convulsive grasp, and the old people turned it about, goodness knows how many times, while the young people soon allowed it to roll away from them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 miser miser NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 convulsive convulsive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 grasp grasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 allowed allow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the children | shilling | | | | with warm hands and the miser with a cold grasp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | past | the old people | shilling | | | | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present | goodness | | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **allow** | past | the young people | shilling | | | | soon *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **roll away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | shilling *not said here* | | | | | from people; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/4/) - ↑ back to [The Silver Shilling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/)