The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 51

So she did kiss him; but while she was doing it she let three drops of hot tallow fall upon his shirt, and he awoke.

Who acts: mother, three drops, man · What happens: kiss, do, let, fall, awake · To what, where: man, shine, shirt

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, three drops, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 kiss	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kiss	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kiss	aux
4	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kiss	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 doing	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 let	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kiss	conj
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 drops	nummod
16	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fall	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tallow	case
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tallow	amod
19	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drops	nmod
20	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 let	parataxis
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 shirt	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shirt	nmod:poss
23	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 awoke	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 awoke	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 awoke	nsubj
27	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kiss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kiss	past · do-support	mother	man		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	do	past · progressive	mother	shine		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	let	infinitive	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	fall	present	three drops of hot tallow		man's shirt	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shirt=Location
5	awake	past	man			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/51/