Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 49
It was the well-known, beloved voice; and kiss followed kiss, in boundless delight.
Who acts: child, known beloved voice · What happens: know, belov, be, kiss, follow · To what, where: known beloved voice, followed kiss, boundless delight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, known beloved voice), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 known | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 voice | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
| 8 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 voice | amod |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 kiss | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kiss | cc |
| 12 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 voice | acl:relcl |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kiss | amod |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kiss | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 delight | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 delight | case |
| 17 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 delight | amod |
| 18 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kiss | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | belov | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | child | the known beloved voice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kiss | infinitive | the known beloved voice not said here | followed kiss | boundless delight | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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