The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 39
Gently stooping over him she kissed his forehead, and at her touch he awoke.
Who acts: last, thrill · What happens: stoop, kiss, awake, touch · To what, where: forehead, touch
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, thrill), 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 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 stooping | advmod |
| 2 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kissed | advcl |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stooping | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kissed | nsubj |
| 6 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 8 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kissed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 awoke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 awoke | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 touch | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 touch | nmod:poss |
| 13 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awoke | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kissed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | gerund | last not said here | over thrill; gently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | last | thrill's forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | thrill | last's touch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=Location | ||||
| 4 | touch | last | nom touch «event 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/39/