Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 46
Gerda kissed his cheeks, and they grew quite blooming; she kissed his eyes, and they shone like her own; she kissed his hands and feet, and he was again well and merry.
Who acts: Gerda, cheeks, Hereupon · What happens: kiss, grow, bloom, shine, be · To what, where: cheeks, eyes, hands
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, cheeks, Hereupon), 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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 blooming | advmod |
| 10 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 grew | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 kissed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | nsubj |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kissed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shone | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shone | nsubj |
| 19 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kissed | conj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 own | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 own | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shone | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 kissed | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kissed | nsubj |
| 25 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hands | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kissed | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 feet | cc |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hands | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 well | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 well | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 well | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 well | cop |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 well | advmod |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 kissed | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 merry | cc |
| 37 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 35 well | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Gerda | Hereupon's cheeks | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | cheeks = cheek | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | cheeks = cheek not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Gerda | Hereupon's eyes | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | cheeks = cheek | like Gerda's own | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | kiss | past | Gerda | Hereupon's hands and feet | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Hereupon | again | well property | tree rules |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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