Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 21

"Once in my youthful hours, when gay and free, A maiden loved me; and her gentle kiss, Rich in its tender love and purity, Taught me, alas! too much of earthly bliss.

Who acts: maiden, gentle kiss, kiss · What happens: love, teach, kiss · To what, where: man, alas

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, gentle kiss, kiss), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hours	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 hours	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 hours	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hours	nmod:poss
5	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gay	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gay	advmod
9	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 free	cc
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loved	punct
13	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loved	nsubj
15	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gay	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 loved	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 Taught	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Taught	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 kiss	nmod:poss
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kiss	amod
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Taught	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Rich	punct
23	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 kiss	appos
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 love	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 love	nmod:poss
26	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 love	amod
27	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Rich	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 purity	cc
29	purity	purity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 love	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kiss	punct
31	Taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 loved	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Taught	iobj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 alas	punct
34	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Taught	obj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 alas	punct
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 alas	amod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 bliss	case
39	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bliss	amod
40	bliss	bliss	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 much	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	love in a quote	past	a maiden	man		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	teach speech: other in a quote	past	maiden's gentle kiss	alas	man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ala=Topic
3	kiss in a quote		maiden			nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	love in a quote		kiss			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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