Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 15
I kissed his fair hair and his blue eyes, it was such a pretty picture.
Who acts: I, thread · What happens: kiss, be · To what, where: fair hair, pretty picture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third 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, thread), 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 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hair | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 picture | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 picture | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 picture | cop |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 picture | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 picture | det |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 picture | amod |
| 16 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | I | wheel's fair hair and wheel's blue eyes | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | thread | such pretty picture | tree rules |
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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