The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 102
He knelt upon one knee and kissed the Queen’s hand.
Who acts: way · What happens: kneel, kiss · To what, where: one knee, hand
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 knee | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 knee | nummod |
| 5 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knelt | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knelt | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | way | one knee | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon knee=Location | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | way not said here | the Queen's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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