Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 31

The husband kissed her hand, which now lay like a withered leaf, but which a short time before had been diligently employed in deeds of love for them all.

Who acts: husband, hand · What happens: kiss, lay, wither, time, employ · To what, where: hand, deeds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, hand), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lay	nsubj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lay	advmod
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	parataxis
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 leaf	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 leaf	det
12	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 leaf	amod
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 employed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 employed	cc
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 time	nsubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 employed	obl
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 time	advmod
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 employed	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 employed	aux:pass
23	diligently	diligently	ADV	_	24 employed	advmod
24	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kissed	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 deeds	case
26	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 employed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 love	case
28	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deeds	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 employed	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 them	nmod:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	the husband	look's hand				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
2	lay	present	look's hand			now	like a withered leaf	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	time						before property	tree rules
5	employ	past · perfect · passive	the husband not said here		deeds of love		for husband; diligently property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: for they=Eventuality

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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