Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 113
I kissed her hand, and wept bitter tears, and I wept still more when I went to my room, and threw myself on the bed.
Who acts: I · What happens: kiss, weep, go, throw · To what, where: hand, bitter tears, more, room, myself, bed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wept | cc |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 8 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tears | amod |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wept | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wept | nsubj |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 wept | obj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wept | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 threw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 threw | cc |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 threw | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bed | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bed | det |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | I | youngest's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | I not said here | bitter tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | I | more | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | I | my room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | myself | the bed | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on bed=Destination |
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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