Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 17
She also smoothed his hat round and round with the palm of her hand, and gave him a kiss.
Who acts: wife · What happens: smooth, give · To what, where: hat, kiss, horse
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smoothed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 smoothed | advmod |
| 3 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smoothed | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 smoothed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 round | cc |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 round | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 palm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palm | det |
| 11 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smoothed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palm | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smoothed | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kiss | det |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smoothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smooth | past | wife | horse's hat | with the palm of wife's hand; round property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hat=Patient with palm=Instrument | |||
| 2 | give | past | wife not said here | a kiss | horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=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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