Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 44
The little maiden bent down and gently kissed the delicate leaves.
Who acts: little maiden · What happens: bend down, kiss · To what, where: little maiden, delicate leaves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 maiden | acl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 bent | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bent | cc |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 kissed | advmod |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaves | det |
| 10 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leaves | amod |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kissed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | participle | the little maiden not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the little maiden | the delicate leaves | gently property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Co-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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