Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 20
The prince kissed his beautiful bride, while she played with his raven hair, till they went arm-in-arm to rest in the splendid tent.
Who acts: prince, present, thought · What happens: kiss, play, go, rest · To what, where: beautiful bride, arm, splendid tent
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, present, thought), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | 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 | 6 bride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bride | amod |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 played | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 played | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 played | nsubj |
| 10 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hair | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 played | conj |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 arm | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 arm | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 rest | mark |
| 25 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 tent | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tent | det |
| 28 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tent | amod |
| 29 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rest | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the prince | prince's beautiful bride | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | past | present | with prince's raven hair | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | thought | arm | arm | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme | |||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | thought not said here | the splendid tent | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location |
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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