--- title: The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little copper, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little copper, and considered itself quite out in the world when it had been circulated for a year in the country in which it had been coined. Who acts: shilling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/4/) [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/) / 4 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 4 The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little copper, and considered itself quite out in the world when it had been circulated for a year in the country in which it had been coined. **Who acts:** shilling · **What happens:** make, contain, consider, circulate, coin · **To what, where:** shilling, little copper, world, country 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), 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:pg27200:167:4 # text = The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little copper, and considered itself quite out in the world when it had been circulated for a year in the country in which it had been coined. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shilling shilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 contained contain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 quite quite ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 circulated circulate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 coined coin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | the shilling | | | | of silver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **contain** | past | shilling | little copper | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot copper=Theme | | 3 | **consider** | past | shilling *not said here* | shilling | | the world | | out *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent itself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **circulate** | past · perfect · passive | | shilling | | the country | year | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **coin** | past · perfect · passive | | shilling | | the country | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/5/) - ↑ back to [The Silver Shilling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/)