Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 24
I pressed a silent kiss on the lips of the Muses, and they seemed to stir and move.
Who acts: I, Muses · What happens: press, seem, stir, move · To what, where: silent kiss, lips
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, Muses), 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 pressed | nsubj |
| 2 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kiss | det |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kiss | amod |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pressed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 lips | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lips | det |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pressed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Muses | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Muses | det |
| 11 | Muses | muse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lips | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pressed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stir | mark |
| 17 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 move | cc |
| 19 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stir | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | I | a silent kiss | the lips of the Muses | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | Muses = muse | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | stir | to-infinitive | Muses = muse not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | move | infinitive | Muses = muse not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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