--- title: He kissed us all, and had so much to tell of what he had seen of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He kissed us all, and had so much to tell of what he had seen of the great ocean, of the fortifications at Malta, and of the marvellous sepulchres of Egypt, that I looked up to him with a kind of veneration. Who acts: Aphtanides, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aphtanides, that), 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:pg27200:36:100 # text = He kissed us all, and had so much to tell of what he had seen of the great ocean, of the fortifications at Malta, and of the marvellous sepulchres of Egypt, that I looked up to him with a kind of veneration. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fortifications fortification NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sepulchres sepulchre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 veneration veneration NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | past | Aphtanides | us | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | | 2 | **have** | past | Aphtanides *not said here* | much | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Aphtanides | | | | | of the great ocean | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **look up** | past | that | | Aphtanides | | | with a kind of veneration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/101/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/)