The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 129

And Gerda kissed his cheeks and they grew rosy; she kissed his eyes and they sparkled like hers; she kissed his hands and feet and he became warm and glowing.

Who acts: Gerda, cheeks, Kay · What happens: kiss, grow, sparkle, become, glow · To what, where: cheeks, eyes, hands

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, cheeks, Kay), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 kissed	cc
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cheeks	nmod:poss
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kissed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	conj
9	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 kissed	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kissed	nsubj
12	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kissed	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sparkled	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sparkled	nsubj
17	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kissed	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 hers	case
19	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sparkled	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 kissed	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kissed	nsubj
22	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kissed	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feet	cc
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hands	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kissed	conj
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 glowing	cc
32	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 warm	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Gerda	Kay's cheeks		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Co-Agent
2	grow	past	cheeks = cheek		rosy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kiss	past	Gerda	Kay's eyes		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent
4	sparkle	past	cheeks = cheek		like Gerda	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kiss	past	Gerda	Kay's hands and feet		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
6	become	past	Kay		warm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	glow	gerund	Kay not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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