Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 150
"Give me a kiss, thou fresh stream of air--only a single life-kiss."
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: give, stream · To what, where: kiss, Flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kiss | det |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stream | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 stream | nsubj |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stream | amod |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stream | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 kiss | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kiss | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kiss | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kiss | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
| 18 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a kiss | the Flowers and the Grass = flower | a single life kiss obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme | ||
| 2 | stream in a quote | thou | of air | tree rules |
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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