Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 36

Then the little ones held each other by the hand, and kissed the roses, and looked at the bright sunshine, and spoke to it as if the Christ-child were there.

Who acts: hand, Christ child · What happens: hold, kiss, look, speak, be · To what, where: little ones, roses, sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, Christ child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 held	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 held	nsubj:pass
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 held	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hand	det
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kissed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kissed	cc
13	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roses	det
15	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kissed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kissed	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 sunshine	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sunshine	det
21	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sunshine	amod
22	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spoke	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spoke	cc
25	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kissed	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spoke	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 there	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 there	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 child	det
31	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 child	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Christ	punct
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 there	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 there	cop
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 spoke	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle · passive	the hand	the little ones		then		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme other=Eventuality
2	kiss	past		the roses				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent
3	look	past					at the bright sunshine	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sunshine=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past			sunshine			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
5	is	past	the Christ child				there property	tree rules

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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