--- title: John kissed the good old king's hand, and said he was sure it would… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: John kissed the good old king's hand, and said he was sure it would be all right, for he was quite enchanted with the beautiful princess. Who acts: John, hand. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, hand), 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:pg27200:197:66 # text = John kissed the good old king's hand, and said he was sure it would be all right, for he was quite enchanted with the beautiful princess. 1 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 quite quite ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | past | John | the good old king's hand | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | John | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | would | hand | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **enchant** | past · passive | | John | | | | with the beautiful princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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