Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 56

They hung me round the neck of a little child, and the child laughed at me and kissed me, and I rested for one whole night on the warm, innocent breast of a child.

Who acts: qualities, child, I · What happens: hang, laugh, kiss, rest · To what, where: me, warm innocent breast

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (qualities, child, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hung	nsubj
2	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hung	obj
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 neck	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neck	det
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hung	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 neck	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hung	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kissed	cc
19	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 kissed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rested	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rested	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 rested	nsubj
24	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hung	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 night	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 night	nummod
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 night	amod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rested	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	34 breast	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 breast	det
31	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 breast	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 warm	punct
33	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 breast	amod
34	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rested	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 child	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 child	det
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 breast	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	qualities = quality	me			round the neck of a little child	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	laugh	past	the child				at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kiss	past	the child not said here	me				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
4	rest	past	I		the warm innocent breast of a child	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on breast=Location

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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