Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 83
White Christian!" she exclaimed aloud, and with the words, she pressed a kiss on the forehead of the hideous frog-child.
Who acts: Christian · What happens: exclaim, press · To what, where: White Christian, kiss, forehead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Christian | amod |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Christian | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Christian | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 6 exclaimed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pressed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pressed | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 words | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pressed | nsubj |
| 15 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kiss | det |
| 17 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pressed | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forehead | det |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pressed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 child | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 23 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 child | amod |
| 24 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 child | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 frog | punct |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forehead | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Christian | White Christian | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | press in a quote | past | Christian | a kiss | the forehead of the hideous frog child | with the words | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme |
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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