The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 96
It fell towards him, and as he felt the touch of a kiss, he exclaimed, “Ah, Maria, Maria, so sweet in death, so hard to me in life!
Who acts: doll, king · What happens: fall, feel, exclaim, touch · To what, where: touch, Maria, life, kiss
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doll, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 felt | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 touch | det |
| 11 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kiss | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kiss | det |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exclaimed | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 17 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Maria | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Maria | punct |
| 20 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 22 Maria | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Maria | punct |
| 22 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 exclaimed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Maria | punct |
| 24 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Maria | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sweet | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 sweet | advmod |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Maria | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 death | case |
| 29 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sweet | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hard | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 hard | advmod |
| 32 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Maria | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 hard | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 life | case |
| 36 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exclaimed | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | doll | towards king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | king | the touch of a kiss | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | king | Maria and Maria | life | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | touch | a kiss | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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