Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 108
Anastasia blushed like a young rose, and my mother kissed Aphtanides.
Who acts: Anastasia, mother · What happens: blush, kiss · To what, where: Aphtanides
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anastasia, mother), 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 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 blushed | nsubj |
| 2 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 rose | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | amod |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kissed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kissed | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | nsubj |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blushed | conj |
| 12 | Aphtanides | Aphtanides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past | Anastasia | like a young rose | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | my mother | Aphtanides | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphtanides=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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