Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 83

And then he kissed her rosy mouth, played with her long waving hair, and laid his head on her heart, while she dreamed of human happiness and an immortal soul. "

Who acts: company, mermaid · What happens: kiss, play, wave, lay, dream · To what, where: rosy mouth, head, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, mermaid), 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 kissed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kissed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissed	nsubj
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 played	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
6	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouth	amod
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kissed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 hair	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hair	nmod:poss
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hair	amod
13	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 hair	amod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laid	cc
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 played	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 heart	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heart	nmod:poss
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dreamed	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 dreamed	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dreamed	nsubj
26	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 laid	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 happiness	case
28	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 happiness	amod
29	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dreamed	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 soul	cc
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 soul	det
32	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soul	amod
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 happiness	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	company	mermaid's rosy mouth		then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Co-Agent
2	play	past					with mermaid's long waving hair	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hair=Theme
3	wave	gerund						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	past		company's head	mermaid's heart			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on heart=Destination
5	dream	past	mermaid				of human happiness and a immortal soul	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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