Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 75

She kissed it and caressed it; but it cried terribly, and struck out with its arms and legs, and did not seem to be pleased at all.

Who acts: wife, measure · What happens: kiss, caress, cry, strike out, not seem, be · To what, where: measure, all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, measure), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 caressed	cc
5	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caressed	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	parataxis
11	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	10 cried	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 struck	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 struck	cc
14	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cried	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 struck	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 arms	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arms	nmod:poss
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 struck	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 legs	cc
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 arms	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seem	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seem	cc
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seem	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 seem	advmod
25	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 pleased	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 pleased	cop
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seem	xcomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 pleased	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	wife	measure			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	caress	past	wife not said here	measure			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	measure			terribly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	strike out	participle	measure not said here			with measure's arms and legs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with arm=Theme
5	not seem	past · do-support	measure not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	measure not said here		all	pleased property	tree rules

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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