Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 13
He still lay thinking and thinking, when all at once it seemed as if some one kissed him on his eyes and mouth.
Who acts: Tuk, it, one · What happens: lie, think, seem, kiss · To what, where: Tuk, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, it, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thinking | cc |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 thinking | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 seemed | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 seemed | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | mark |
| 11 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kissed | nsubj |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seemed | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kissed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mouth | cc |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Tuk | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Tuk not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Tuk not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kiss | past | some one | Tuk | Tuk's eyes and mouth | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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