Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 17

The mermaid kissed his high, smooth forehead, and stroked back his wet hair; he seemed to her like the marble statue in her little garden, and she kissed him again, and wished that he might live.

Who acts: mermaid, fragment · What happens: kiss, stroke back, seem, wish, live · To what, where: high smooth forehead, wet hair, mermaid, fragment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mermaid, fragment), 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 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 forehead	nmod:poss
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forehead	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forehead	amod
8	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stroked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stroked	cc
11	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 stroked	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hair	amod
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stroked	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 statue	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 statue	det
23	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 statue	amod
24	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 garden	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 garden	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 garden	amod
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 statue	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kissed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kissed	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kissed	nsubj
32	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kissed	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 kissed	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wished	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wished	cc
37	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 live	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 live	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 live	aux
41	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wished	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	the mermaid	fragment's high smooth forehead				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent
2	stroke back	past	the mermaid not said here	fragment's wet hair				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer
3	seem	past	fragment		mermaid		like the marble statue in mermaid's little garden	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	kiss	past	mermaid	fragment		again		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	wish	past	the mermaid not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	live	might	fragment					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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