Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 86
She bent over her husband, who still slept; her warm, devoted kiss awakened him, and words of heartfelt love fell from the lips of both.
Who acts: mother, husband, warm devoted kiss, words · What happens: bend, sleep, awaken, fall, kiss, word · To what, where: husband, lips, heartfelt love
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 (mother, husband, warm devoted kiss, words), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 husband | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slept | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 slept | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 slept | advmod |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 husband | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 awakened | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kiss | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 warm | punct |
| 14 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kiss | amod |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 awakened | nsubj |
| 16 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bent | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awakened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 love | case |
| 22 | heartfelt | heartfelt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 love | amod |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 words | nmod |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bent | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 lips | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lips | det |
| 27 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 both | case |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 lips | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | mother | over mother's husband | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over husband=Location | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | mother's husband | still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | awaken | past | mother's warm devoted kiss | husband | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | words of heartfelt love | the lips of both | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | kiss | mother | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | word | heartfelt love | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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