Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 45
I missed my wife and the little ones, who are always ready to smother me with kisses."
Who acts: I, little ones · What happens: miss, be, smother · To what, where: wife, me
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 (I, little ones), 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 missed | nsubj |
| 2 | missed | miss | 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 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 missed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ones | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ones | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wife | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ready | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 ready | advmod |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 smother | mark |
| 15 | smother | smother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 smother | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 kisses | case |
| 18 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smother | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 missed | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | I | my wife and the little ones | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the little ones | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smother | to-infinitive | the little ones not said here | me | with kisses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with kiss=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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