Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 71

We were invited to partake; and as I sat by the fire, a boy, older than myself, put his arms round my neck, and kissed me, and said, "Christ is risen."

Who acts: We, I · What happens: invite, partake, sit, put, kiss, say · To what, where: We, arms, me, Christ · 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 (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 invited	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invited	aux:pass
3	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 partake	mark
5	partake	partake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 invited	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 sat	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 put	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boy	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fire	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 older	punct
18	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sat	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 myself	case
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 older	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 invited	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 neck	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kissed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kissed	cc
30	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invited	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 kissed	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 kissed	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 risen	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 risen	punct
37	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 risen	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 risen	aux:pass
39	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 said	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invited	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invite	past · passive		We		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	partake not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here			tree rules
3	sit	past	I		by the fire and a boy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
4	put	infinitive		boy's arms	round my neck	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
5	kiss	past		me		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	rise in a quote	present · passive		Christ		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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