Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 12
I kissed her pretty round shoulders, her dark eyes, and black shining hair.
Who acts: I · What happens: kiss, shine · To what, where: beam, hair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | obj |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 round | advmod |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shoulders | amod |
| 6 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shoulders | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 black | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 black | cc |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 black | xcomp |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shining | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | I | beam | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | I not said here | hair | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
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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