--- title: It fell towards him, and as he felt the touch of a kiss, he exclaime… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It fell towards him, and as he felt the touch of a kiss, he exclaimed, “Ah, Maria, Maria, so sweet in death, so hard to me in life! Who acts: doll, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doll, king), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:38:96 # text = It fell towards him, and as he felt the touch of a kiss, he exclaimed, “Ah, Maria, Maria, so sweet in death, so hard to me in life! 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 towards towards ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Maria Maria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Maria Maria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | doll | | | | | towards king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **feel** | past | king | the touch of a kiss | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme | | 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | king | Maria and Maria | | life | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **touch** | | | a kiss | | | | | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/97/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/)