Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 28
Kiss it," cried she, flapping it in Gerda's face. "
Who acts: you · What happens: kiss, cry, flap · To what, where: nearest, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-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), 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 | Kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kiss | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kiss | parataxis |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flapping | punct |
| 8 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flapping | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Gerda | case |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flapping | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiss | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | imperative | you not said here | nearest = near | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flap in a quote | gerund | nearest = near | in Gerda's face | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in face=Topic |
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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