Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 105
Christina, however, was quite at her ease; she talked and talked, and kissed him in the most friendly manner.
Who acts: Christina · What happens: be, talk, kiss · To what, where: ease, Ib, friendly manner
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christina), 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 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ease | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Christina | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 ease | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ease | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 ease | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 ease | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ease | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 talked | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 talked | nsubj |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ease | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 talked | cc |
| 14 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 talked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kissed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kissed | cc |
| 17 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 talked | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kissed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 manner | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 manner | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 friendly | advmod |
| 22 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 manner | amod |
| 23 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kissed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Christina | Christina's ease | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | talk | past | Christina | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | past | Christina not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Christina not said here | Ib | the friendly manner | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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