Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 48

It lay in a child's hand, and was kissed by a child's mouth, and carried into a warm room, and looked on by gentle eyes, and put into water.

Who acts: water, mouth · What happens: lie, kiss, carry, look on, put · To what, where: hand, warm room, water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, mouth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kissed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kissed	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kissed	aux:pass
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lay	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mouth	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 child	case
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kissed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 room	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 room	det
22	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 room	amod
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looked	cc
26	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 carried	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 looked	compound:prt
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
29	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eyes	amod
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 looked	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
33	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 looked	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 water	case
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	water	a child's hand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location
2	kiss	past · passive	a child's mouth			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry	past		a warm room		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look on	participle			by gentle eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by eye=Theme
5	put	participle		water		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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