Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 118
Then he kissed her lips; and so they parted.
Who acts: childhood, lips · What happens: kiss, part · To what, where: lips
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 (childhood, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lips | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 parted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 parted | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 parted | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 parted | nsubj |
| 10 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | childhood | Christina's lips | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | part | past | lips = lip | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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