Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 125
I kissed the ring till my lips almost bled, and then I gave it to my mistress, and told her that the banns were to be put up for me and the glovemaker the following week.
Who acts: I, lips · What happens: kiss, bleed, give, tell, put up, follow · To what, where: ring, mistress, banns · Speech: someone speaks here
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, lips), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 bled | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bled | nsubj |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 bled | advmod |
| 9 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gave | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mistress | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 put | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 banns | det |
| 25 | banns | banns | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 put | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 put | aux:pass |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 put | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 put | aux:pass |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 told | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 put | compound:prt |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 put | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 glovemaker | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 glovemaker | det |
| 35 | glovemaker | glovemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 me | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 week | det |
| 37 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 week | amod |
| 38 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 put | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | I | the ring | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | bleed | past | my lips | almost property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | give | past | I | ring | my mistress | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mistress=Recipient | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | mistress | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | put up | past · passive | the banns | week | for me | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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