Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 31

He bowed his head over it and kissed it, old, thrown away, and cracked as it was, and standing there amidst the grass and nettles.

Who acts: boy, head · What happens: bow, kiss, throw away, crack, be, stand · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kissed	cc
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kissed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kissed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thrown	punct
13	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 old	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 thrown	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cracked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cracked	cc
17	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thrown	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 was	nsubj
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cracked	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 standing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 standing	cc
23	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bowed	advcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 standing	advmod
25	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 standing	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nettles	cc
29	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grass	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bow	past	boy	boy's head	head		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	kiss	past	boy not said here	head			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
3	throw away	participle	boy not said here			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	crack	participle	boy not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	head				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	gerund	boy not said here		there	amidst the grass and nettles	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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