Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 77
"Are you still cold," she asked, as she kissed him on the forehead.
Who acts: you, queen · What happens: be, ask, kiss · To what, where: fur, forehead · 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 (you, queen), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 cold | advmod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kissed | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 kissed | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | nsubj |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 forehead | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forehead | det |
| 17 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kissed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | still | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | queen | fur | the forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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