Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 13
"And the father kissed the innocent child's forehead, and I kissed her on the mouth and eyes."
Who acts: father, child · What happens: kiss · To what, where: forehead, child, mouth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, child), 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 | _ | 5 kissed | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | nsubj |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 7 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 child | case |
| 10 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kissed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mouth | det |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kissed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eyes | cc |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mouth | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kissed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss in a quote | past | the father | the innocent child's forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss in a quote | past | child | child | the mouth and eyes | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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