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title: "Whether the lottery ticket gained a prize, I know not; but this I k… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Whether the lottery ticket gained a prize, I know not; but this I know, that in a very few days after, I was recognized as a bad shilling, and laid aside. Who acts: lottery ticket, remark. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 66

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"Whether the lottery ticket gained a prize, I know not; but this I know, that in a very few days after, I was recognized as a bad shilling, and laid aside.

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**Who acts:** lottery ticket, remark · **What happens:** gain, not know, know, recognize, lay · **To what, where:** prize, this, remark · **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 (lottery ticket, remark), 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:pg27200:167:66
# text = "Whether the lottery ticket gained a prize, I know not; but this I know, that in a very few days after, I was recognized as a bad shilling, and laid aside.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lottery	lottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
25	after	after	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
37	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** *in a quote* | past | the lottery ticket | a prize |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | remark | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | remark |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **recognize** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | remark |  |  | day | as a bad shilling | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as shilling=Attribute |
| 5 | **lay** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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