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title: The General's lady kissed her on the mouth, and the General kissed h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The General's lady kissed her on the mouth, and the General kissed her on the forehead; they were affectionate parents, and they and Emily had to receive grand visitors, two of the Princes. Who acts: lady, General, Flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 30

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The General's lady kissed her on the mouth, and the General kissed her on the forehead; they were affectionate parents, and they and Emily had to receive grand visitors, two of the Princes.

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**Who acts:** lady, General, Flowers · **What happens:** kiss, be, have, receive · **To what, where:** Castle, mouth, forehead, affectionate parents, grand visitors

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, General, Flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:148:30
# text = The General's lady kissed her on the mouth, and the General kissed her on the forehead; they were affectionate parents, and they and Emily had to receive grand visitors, two of the Princes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the General's lady | Castle |  | the mouth |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | the General | Castle |  | the forehead |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Flowers *= flower* | affectionate parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | to-infinitive | Flowers *= flower* *not said here* | grand visitors |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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