Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 88

I may kiss him," she would say proudly, as she threw her arms round his neck; she was vain of her power over Anthony, for he would submit quietly and think nothing of it.

Who acts: I, Molly, Anthony · What happens: kiss, say, throw, be, submit, think · To what, where: Anthony, arms, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Molly, Anthony), 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	3 kiss	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kiss	aux
3	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kiss	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kiss	conj
10	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 threw	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 threw	obj
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 vain	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 vain	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 vain	cop
23	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kiss	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 power	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 power	nmod:poss
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vain	obl
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 Anthony	case
28	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 power	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 submit	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 submit	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 submit	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 submit	aux
33	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 vain	parataxis
34	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	33 submit	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 think	cc
36	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 submit	conj
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 think	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 nothing	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kiss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	may	I	Anthony		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	Molly		proudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	throw in a quote	past	Molly	Molly's arms	round Anthony's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	Molly		of Molly's power over Anthony; vain property	tree rules
5	submit in a quote	would	Anthony		quietly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	Anthony not said here	nothing		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=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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