Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 23
But a kiss in the dance was all the busy tongues could accuse him of.
Who acts: kiss · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiss), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 accuse | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kiss | det |
| 3 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accuse | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kiss | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 accuse | cop |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 tongues | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tongues | det |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tongues | amod |
| 11 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 accuse | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 accuse | aux |
| 13 | accuse | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 accuse | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 accuse | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 accuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could · past | a kiss in the dance | accuse property | tree rules |
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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