Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 93
He took Emily's hand and kissed it--he might do so on such an occasion.
Who acts: father · What happens: take, kiss, do · To what, where: hand, occasion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Emily | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissed | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 occasion | case |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 occasion | det:predet |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 occasion | det |
| 17 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | father | Emily's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | father not said here | hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | might | father | such occasion | vn act-114-1 «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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