Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 76
And he kissed his mother so roughly, that she nearly fell backwards.
Who acts: water, mother · What happens: kiss, fall · To what, where: mother
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 (water, mother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 kissed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | 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 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 roughly | advmod |
| 7 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 13 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | water | water's mother | roughly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fall | past | mother | backwards, nearly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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