Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 140

I bent towards him, I kissed his forehead, and whispered, "I have never spoken of this to her, and perhaps she does not love me.

Who acts: I, fire · What happens: bend, kiss, whisper, not speak, not love · To what, where: forehead, fire, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, fire), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kissed	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kissed	nsubj
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 forehead	nmod:poss
9	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kissed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 whispered	cc
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoken	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 spoken	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 spoken	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 spoken	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 spoken	advmod
18	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 whispered	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 spoken	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoken	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 love	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 love	cc
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 love	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 love	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 love	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 love	advmod
29	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 spoken	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 love	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bend	past	I			towards Aphtanides	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Location
2	kiss	past	I	Aphtanides's forehead			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent
3	whisper speech: assert	past	I not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	I		fire	of this	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
5	not love in a quote	present · do-support	fire	me		perhaps property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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