Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 75
Once a beautiful boy was stolen from me by man,--a boy whom I had kissed, but had not kissed to death.
Who acts: man, I · What happens: steal, kiss, not kiss · To what, where: beautiful boy, boy
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 (man, I), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 stolen | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stolen | aux:pass |
| 6 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stolen | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stolen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | appos |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 kissed | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kissed | aux |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 boy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kissed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 kissed | cc |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kissed | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 kissed | advmod |
| 23 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 stolen | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kissed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · passive | man | a beautiful boy | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 2 | kiss | past · perfect | I | a boy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | not kiss | past · perfect | man not said here | to death | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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