Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 60
"Now I see that it is Sunday," said the husband, kissing his little wife.
Who acts: husband, handful · What happens: see, be, say, kiss · To what, where: Sunday, little wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, handful), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 Sunday | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Sunday | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Sunday | cop |
| 8 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 husband | det |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kissing | punct |
| 15 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the husband = husband | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | handful | Sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kiss | gerund | the husband not said here | husband's little wife | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-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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