Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 59
He turned round and was going away, but she seized his hand and pressed it to her lips.
Who acts: boy, end · What happens: turn round, go away, seize, press · To what, where: hand, same
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, end), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 going | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 seized | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pressed | cc |
| 15 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pressed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lips | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lips | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pressed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | boy | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go away | past · progressive | boy not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | end | boy's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | press | past | end not said here | same | to end's lips | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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