Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 30
"My beams have kissed the wreath of immortelles on his grave, and this night they kissed the forehead of the old grandame, while in a dream the picture floated before her which thou mayest draw--the poor boy on the throne of France."
Who acts: beams, My · What happens: kiss, float, draw, beam · To what, where: beams, forehead, dream, picture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beams | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kissed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kissed | aux |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wreath | det |
| 7 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 immortelles | case |
| 9 | immortelles | immortelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wreath | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grave | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 immortelles | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kissed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | nsubj |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kissed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forehead | det |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kissed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 grandame | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grandame | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grandame | amod |
| 24 | grandame | grandame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forehead | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dream | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 dream | mark |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 dream | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dream | det |
| 29 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kissed | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 picture | det |
| 31 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dream | appos |
| 32 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 picture | acl |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 38 draw | mark |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 draw | nmod:poss |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 draw | nsubj |
| 36 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 draw | nsubj |
| 37 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 38 draw | aux |
| 38 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 floated | advcl |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 boy | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 boy | det |
| 41 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 boy | amod |
| 42 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 picture | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 throne | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 throne | det |
| 45 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 boy | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 France | case |
| 47 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 throne | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 dream | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss in a quote | present · perfect · passive | My beams | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kiss in a quote | past | beams = beam | the forehead of the old grandame | a dream | night | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | float in a quote | participle | the picture and the poor boy on the throne of France not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | draw in a quote | may | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | beam in a quote | My | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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