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title: "Give me a kiss, thou fresh stream of air--only a single life-kiss." — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Give me a kiss, thou fresh stream of air--only a single life-kiss." Who acts: you, thou. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 150

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"Give me a kiss, thou fresh stream of air--only a single life-kiss."

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** give, stream · **To what, where:** kiss, Flowers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (you, thou), 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:pg27200:26:150
# text = "Give me a kiss, thou fresh stream of air--only a single life-kiss."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a kiss | the Flowers and the Grass *= flower* |  |  | a single life kiss *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 2 | **stream** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  | of air | tree rules |

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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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