Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 24
He certainly had kissed Annette, but she was not the flower of his heart.
Who acts: Rudy, Annette · What happens: kiss, not be · To what, where: Annette, flower
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 (Rudy, Annette), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 kissed | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | aux |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Annette | Annette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flower | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 flower | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flower | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flower | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 flower | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flower | det |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flower | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past · perfect | Rudy | Annette | certainly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent annette=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | Annette | the flower | of Rudy's heart | 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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