Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 243
He stooped and kissed the tears from her eyes, and touched her lips with his.
Who acts: life · What happens: stoop, kiss, touch · To what, where: tears, eyes, lips
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 stooped | nsubj |
| 2 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | cc |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stooped | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tears | det |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kissed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 touched | cc |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stooped | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lips | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 touched | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 his | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 touched | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | life | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | life not said here | the tears | woman's eyes | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | touch | past | woman's lips | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus lip=Experiencer his=Result |
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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