Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 14
Behind the broad fragrant leaves lurks the goddess of Death, and her welcome kiss shall breathe fever into thy blood.
Who acts: welcome kiss, Death · What happens: lurk, breathe, kiss · To what, where: goddess, broad fragrant leaves, fever, blood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (welcome kiss, Death), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaves | det |
| 3 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 4 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lurks | obl |
| 6 | lurks | lurk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goddess | det |
| 8 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lurks | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Death | case |
| 10 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 goddess | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 breathe | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 breathe | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kiss | amod |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breathe | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 breathe | aux |
| 17 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lurks | conj |
| 18 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breathe | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 blood | nmod:poss |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breathe | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lurks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lurk | present | the goddess of Death | the broad fragrant leaves | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breathe | shall | Death's welcome kiss | fever | thy blood | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Theme | |||
| 3 | kiss | Death | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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