Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 159
I threw my arms round her, and pressed my lips to hers.
Who acts: I · What happens: throw, press · To what, where: arms, lips, Anastasia
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), 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 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pressed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pressed | cc |
| 9 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pressed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hers | case |
| 13 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pressed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | I | my arms | round Anastasia | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | press | past | I not said here | my lips | Anastasia | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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