Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 21
They kissed each other in the presence of the old man, which is as good as an engagement.
Who acts: eyes, old man · What happens: kiss, be · To what, where: each, presence
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, old man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 kissed | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 presence | det |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presence | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 good | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 engagement | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 engagement | det |
| 19 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | eyes = eye | each | the presence of the old man | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | the old man | as a engagement; good 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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