More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 7
Taking her by the hand, he kissed her thrice before them all, and turned to the King.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, kiss, turn · To what, where: lover, thrice
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kissed | advcl |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | nsubj |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thrice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kissed | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kissed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | King not said here | lover | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | King | lover's thrice | before lords = lord | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrice=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | turn | past | King not said here | to the King result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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