Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 21
And then they kissed each other, and the girl wept, and gave him a rose; but before she did so, she pressed a kiss upon it so fervently that the flower opened.
Who acts: man, girl, flower · What happens: kiss, weep, give, do, press, open · To what, where: each, rose, brother, kiss
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, girl, flower), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 kissed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 kissed | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wept | nsubj |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wept | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rose | det |
| 17 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pressed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 pressed | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pressed | advcl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 did | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pressed | nsubj |
| 26 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 kiss | det |
| 28 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pressed | obj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pressed | obl |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 fervently | advmod |
| 32 | fervently | fervently | ADV | _ | 26 pressed | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 opened | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 flower | det |
| 35 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 opened | nsubj |
| 36 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fervently | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | man | each | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | weep | past | the girl | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the girl not said here | a rose | brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rose=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | press | past | girl | a kiss | upon kiss; fervently property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | |||
| 6 | open | past | the flower | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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