Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 180
Then she wept, and kissed her little half-strangled Bellissima.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: weep, kiss, strangle · To what, where: little strangled Bellissima
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wept | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kissed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kissed | cc |
| 6 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Bellissima | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bellissima | amod |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 strangled | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 11 | strangled | strangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Bellissima | amod |
| 12 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kissed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Bellissima | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Bellissima not said here | Bellissima's little strangled Bellissima | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellissima=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | strangle | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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