Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 57
They used to kiss my nose, and wipe my paws with an embroidered handkerchief, and I was called 'Ami, dear Ami, sweet Ami.'
Who acts: people · What happens: use, kiss, wipe, embroider, call · To what, where: nose, paws, I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 kiss | mark |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nose | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kiss | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wipe | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wipe | cc |
| 9 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kiss | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paws | nmod:poss |
| 11 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wipe | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 handkerchief | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 handkerchief | det |
| 14 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 handkerchief | amod |
| 15 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wipe | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 called | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 called | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 used | conj |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | Ami | Ami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ami | punct |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Ami | amod |
| 25 | Ami | Ami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ami | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Ami | punct |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Ami | amod |
| 28 | Ami | Ami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ami | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | people | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kiss | to-infinitive | people not said here | my nose | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | wipe | infinitive | people not said here | my paws | with a embroidered handkerchief | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source | |||
| 4 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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