Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 90

"Innocent souls are soon intimate," said the woman, as she caressed both the boy and the dog.

Who acts: Innocent souls, woman · What happens: be, say, caress · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Innocent souls, woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 intimate	punct
2	Innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 souls	amod
3	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 intimate	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 intimate	cop
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 intimate	advmod
6	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 intimate	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 intimate	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 caressed	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 caressed	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caressed	nsubj
15	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	18 boy	cc:preconj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caressed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dog	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boy	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Innocent souls		intimate, soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	caress	past	woman	the boy and the dog		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Experiencer

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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