Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 61

He kissed the letter, and it was laid, with its enclosure of verses, in a box, in which there were many beautiful verses, but all of them without flowers; she was the first, the only one, as the Sunbeams had called her; and it was a pleasant thing to think of that.

Who acts: journey, many beautiful verses, flower, letter · What happens: kiss, lay, be, call, think · To what, where: letter, box, Sunbeams, pleasant thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (journey, many beautiful verses, flower, letter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kissed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laid	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux:pass
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kissed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enclosure	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 enclosure	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 enclosure	nmod:poss
13	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 verses	case
15	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 enclosure	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 box	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 box	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 box	det
19	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 were	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 were	obl
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 were	expl
24	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	parataxis
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 verses	amod
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 verses	amod
27	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 were	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 all	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kissed	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 all	nmod
33	without	without	ADP	_	34 flowers	case
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 all	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 first	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 first	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 first	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 first	det
39	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 kissed	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 one	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 one	det
42	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 one	amod
43	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 first	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 called	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 called	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Sunbeams	det
47	Sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 called	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 called	aux
49	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 first	advcl
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 called	obj
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 thing	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 thing	cc
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 thing	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 thing	cop
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 thing	det
56	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 thing	amod
57	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kissed	parataxis
58	to	to	PART	_	59 think	mark
59	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 thing	acl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 that	case
61	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 think	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	journey	the letter			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Co-Agent
2	lay	past · passive		letter	a box	with letter's enclosure of verses	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in box=Destination
3	be	past	many beautiful verses		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	is	past	flower			the only one obl; first property	tree rules
5	call	past · perfect · passive		the Sunbeams			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme she=Result
6	is a	past	letter	a pleasant thing			tree rules
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	journey not said here			of a pleasant thing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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