--- title: "At length one day I was passed to a traveller, a foreigner, the ver… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "At length one day I was passed to a traveller, a foreigner, the very same who had brought me away from home; and he was simple and true-hearted enough to take me for current coin. Who acts: foreigner. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/71/) [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/) / 71 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 71 "At length one day I was passed to a traveller, a foreigner, the very same who had brought me away from home; and he was simple and true-hearted enough to take me for current coin. **Who acts:** foreigner · **What happens:** pass, bring away, be, take · **To what, where:** Everything, traveller, home 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 (foreigner), 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:pg27200:167:71 # text = "At length one day I was passed to a traveller, a foreigner, the very same who had brought me away from home; and he was simple and true-hearted enough to take me for current coin. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 foreigner foreigner NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 hearted hearted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Everything | a traveller | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to traveller=Recipient | | 2 | **bring away** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive | | Everything | | home | | away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | foreigner | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | foreigner *not said here* | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | foreigner *not said here* | Everything | | | | for current coin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for coin=Beneficiary | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/72/) - ↑ back to [The Silver Shilling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/)