Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 105
And his mother held him in her arms; she kissed his lips, his forehead, and his red hair.
Who acts: mother · What happens: hold, kiss · To what, where: dog, arms, lips
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 held | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 held | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 kissed | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kissed | nsubj |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kissed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forehead | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lips | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hair | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hair | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hair | amod |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | dog's mother | dog | mother's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | mother | dog's lips and dog's forehead | dog's red hair obl | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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