Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 50

He had brought another, a young one, with him, whose udder was filled with milk, which he gave to the little ones, and kissed their lips.

Who acts: sun, milk · What happens: bring, fill, give, kiss · To what, where: young one, udder, little ones, lips

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 (sun, milk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 filled	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 filled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 filled	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 udder	nmod:poss
14	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 filled	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 filled	aux:pass
16	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brought	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 milk	case
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 filled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gave	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 milk	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 ones	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ones	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kissed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kissed	cc
29	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lips	nmod:poss
31	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kissed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect	sun	another young one			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	fill	past · passive		udder		with sun; with milk	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with he=Instrument
3	give	past	milk		the little ones		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
4	kiss	past		winds's lips			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent

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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