Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 134
And then she took two flowers out of her hair, and kissed them.
Who acts: mother · What happens: take, kiss · To what, where: two flowers, hair, flowers
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 flowers | nummod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hair | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hair | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kissed | cc |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | two flowers | mother's hair | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme out hair=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | kiss | past | mother not said here | flowers = flower | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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