Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 30

The General's lady kissed her on the mouth, and the General kissed her on the forehead; they were affectionate parents, and they and Emily had to receive grand visitors, two of the Princes.

Who acts: lady, General, Flowers · What happens: kiss, be, have, receive · To what, where: Castle, mouth, forehead, affectionate parents, grand visitors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, General, Flowers), 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	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 General	case
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	nsubj
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kissed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouth	det
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kissed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kissed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 General	det
13	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 kissed	nsubj
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kissed	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kissed	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 forehead	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forehead	det
18	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kissed	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 parents	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 parents	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 parents	cop
22	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 parents	amod
23	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kissed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Emily	cc
28	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 they	conj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kissed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 receive	mark
31	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 visitors	amod
33	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 receive	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 two	punct
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 visitors	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Princes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Princes	det
38	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 two	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kiss	past	the General's lady	Castle	the mouth	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	kiss	past	the General	Castle	the forehead	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	is a	past	Flowers = flower	affectionate parents		tree rules
4	have	past	Flowers = flower			tree rules
5	receive	to-infinitive	Flowers = flower not said here	grand visitors		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=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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