Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 50

Unseen she kissed the forehead of her bride, and fanned the prince, and then mounted with the other children of the air to a rosy cloud that floated through the aether.

Who acts: Unseen, rosy cloud · What happens: kiss, fan, mount, float · To what, where: forehead, prince, rosy cloud, aether

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 (Unseen, rosy cloud), 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	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kissed	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forehead	det
5	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bride	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bride	nmod:poss
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forehead	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fanned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fanned	cc
11	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fanned	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mounted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mounted	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 mounted	advmod
17	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fanned	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 children	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mounted	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 children	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 cloud	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cloud	det
27	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cloud	amod
28	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mounted	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 floated	nsubj
30	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cloud	acl:relcl
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 aether	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 aether	det
33	aether	aether	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 floated	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Unseen	the forehead of heart's bride				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent
2	fan	past	Unseen not said here	the prince				tree rules
3	mount	participle	Unseen not said here		a rosy cloud	then	with the other children of the air	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Location
4	float	past	a rosy cloud		the aether			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through aether=Trajectory

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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