Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 4
The little mermaid kissed his hand, and felt as if her heart were already broken.
Who acts: little mermaid · What happens: kiss, feel, break · To what, where: hand, heart
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 (little 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mermaid | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mermaid | amod |
| 3 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 broken | advmod |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 felt | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the little mermaid | mermaid's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the little mermaid not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | break a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | bride's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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