Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 22
"A difference!" cried the sunbeam, as he kissed the blooming apple-branch, and then kissed the yellow dandelion out in the fields.
Who acts: difference · What happens: cry, kiss, bloom · To what, where: sunbeam, blooming apple branch, yellow dandelion, fields
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 difference | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 difference | det |
| 3 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 difference | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 difference | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sunbeam | det |
| 8 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | nsubj |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 branch | det |
| 14 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 branch | amod |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 branch | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 apple | punct |
| 17 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kissed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kissed | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 kissed | advmod |
| 21 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dandelion | det |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dandelion | amod |
| 24 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kissed | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 kissed | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fields | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fields | det |
| 28 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kissed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a difference | the sunbeam | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunbeam=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | difference | the blooming apple branch | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | kiss | past | the yellow dandelion | the fields | then | out property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dandelion=Co-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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