Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 12
I kissed my hand to him over and over again, as he shone far into my little room; and he, for his part, promised me that every evening, when he came abroad, he would look in upon me for a few moments.
Who acts: I, MOON · What happens: kiss, shine, promise, come, look in · To what, where: hand, MOON, little room, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, MOON), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | obl |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 kissed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 again | cc |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 again | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 over | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shone | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 shone | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shone | nsubj |
| 14 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 shone | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 room | amod |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shone | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 promised | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 promised | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 promised | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 part | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 part | nmod:poss |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 he | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 28 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 promised | iobj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 evening | mark |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 evening | det |
| 32 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 promised | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 came | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 promised | conj |
| 37 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 36 came | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 look | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 look | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 look | aux |
| 41 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 promised | parataxis |
| 42 | in | in | ADV | _ | 41 look | advmod |
| 43 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 44 me | case |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 look | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 moments | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 moments | det |
| 47 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 moments | amod |
| 48 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 look | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | I | my hand | MOON | over property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | shine | past | MOON | my little room | far property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | MOON | me | evening | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | past | MOON | abroad property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look in | would | MOON | moment | upon me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon i=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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