Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 104
And Else kissed him when she heard of it, for she loved Martin best.
Who acts: Else · What happens: kiss, hear, love · To what, where: Jurgen, Martin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (Else), 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 | Else | Else | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loved | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 loved | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 14 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obj |
| 15 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 loved | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Else | Jurgen | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Else | of mind | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | past | Else | Martin | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer martin=Stimulus |
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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