Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 112
And then she took two flowers out of her wreath and kissed them.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, kiss · To what, where: two flowers, wreath, flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 flowers | nummod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 wreath | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wreath | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wreath | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | girl | two flowers | girl's wreath | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme out wreath=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | kiss | past | girl not said here | flowers = flower | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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