Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 105

The daughters of the sunbeam kissed him; they wished to thaw, and melt, and obliterate the ice kiss which the queenly maiden of the glaciers had given him as he lay in the lap of his dead mother, in the deep crevasse of ice from which he had been so wonderfully rescued.

Who acts: daughters, Maiden · What happens: kiss, wish, thaw, melt, obliterate, give · To what, where: sun, ice kiss, queenly maiden, lap, Maiden, ice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, Maiden), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughters	det
2	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kissed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sunbeam	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sunbeam	det
5	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughters	nmod
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kissed	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 wished	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kissed	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 thaw	mark
12	thaw	thaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 melt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 melt	cc
15	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thaw	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 obliterate	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 obliterate	cc
18	obliterate	obliterate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kiss	det
20	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kiss	compound
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 obliterate	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 given	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 maiden	det
24	queenly	queenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 maiden	amod
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 given	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 glaciers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 glaciers	det
28	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 maiden	nmod
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 kiss	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	iobj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 lay	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 lap	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lap	det
37	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 mother	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mother	nmod:poss
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mother	amod
41	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lap	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 crevasse	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 crevasse	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 crevasse	det
45	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 crevasse	amod
46	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 ice	case
48	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 crevasse	nmod
49	from	from	ADP	_	50 which	case
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 rescued	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 rescued	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 rescued	aux
53	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 rescued	aux:pass
54	so	so	ADV	_	56 rescued	advmod
55	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	56 rescued	advmod
56	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 ice	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	the daughters of the sunbeam	sun				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	wish	past	daughters = daughter					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	thaw not said to happen	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	melt	infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	obliterate	infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	the ice kiss				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient
6	give	past · perfect · passive		the queenly maiden of the glaciers	sun			tree rules
7	lie	past	Maiden			the lap of sun's dead mother	in the deep crevasse of ice	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location
8	rescue	past · perfect · passive		Maiden		ice	wonderfully property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source

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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