Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 9
The angel took up the rose-bush; then he kissed the child, and the little one half opened his eyes.
Who acts: angel, little one half · What happens: take up, kiss, open · To what, where: rose bush, child, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, little one half), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 angel | det |
| 2 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bush | det |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bush | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 8 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 kissed | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | nsubj |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 half | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 half | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 half | compound |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kissed | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 opened | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the angel | the rose bush | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | angel | the child | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | open | past | the little one half | child's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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