Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 30
Then Gerda kissed his cheeks, and they became blooming; and she kissed his eyes, and they shone like her own; she kissed his hands and his feet, and then he became quite healthy and cheerful.
Who acts: Gerda, cheeks, Kay · What happens: kiss, become, bloom, shine · To what, where: cheeks, eyes, hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, cheeks, Kay), 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 | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 10 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 became | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kissed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shone | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shone | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shone | nsubj |
| 20 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kissed | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 own | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shone | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 kissed | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kissed | nsubj |
| 26 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kissed | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 feet | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hands | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 became | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 became | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 became | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 became | nsubj |
| 36 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 37 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 38 healthy | advmod |
| 38 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 became | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cheerful | cc |
| 40 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 healthy | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Gerda | Kay's cheeks | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | become | past | cheeks = cheek | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | cheeks = cheek not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Gerda | Kay's eyes | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | cheeks = cheek | like Gerda's own | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | kiss | past | Gerda | Kay's hands and Kay's feet | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | become | past | Kay | then | healthy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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