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title: I throw shillings and pence among the people; I give balls, no less… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I throw shillings and pence among the people; I give balls, no less than thirty-one; indeed, that is the highest number I can spare for balls. Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 19

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I throw shillings and pence among the people; I give balls, no less than thirty-one; indeed, that is the highest number I can spare for balls.

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** throw, give, be, spare · **To what, where:** shillings, balls, highest number

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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:pg27200:82:19
# text = I throw shillings and pence among the people; I give balls, no less than thirty-one; indeed, that is the highest number I can spare for balls.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present | I | shillings and pence |  |  |  | among the people; indeed *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shilling=Theme among people=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | I | balls |  |  |  | thirty one *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | the highest number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spare** | can | I | the highest number *not said here* |  |  |  | for balls | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent number=Asset |

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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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