Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 19
She lay on the sofa asleep, and she was so beautiful that the merchant's son could not help kissing her.
Who acts: princess, son · What happens: lie, be, not help, kiss · To what, where: sofa, princess
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, son), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sofa | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sofa | det |
| 5 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 help | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 beautiful | advcl |
| 21 | kissing | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 help | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kissing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | princess | the sofa | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | princess | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not help | could | the merchant's son | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss not said to happen | gerund | the merchant's son not said here | princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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