--- title: The mermaid kissed his high, smooth forehead, and stroked back his w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The mermaid kissed his high, smooth forehead, and stroked back his wet hair; he seemed to her like the marble statue in her little garden, and she kissed him again, and wished that he might live. Who acts: mermaid, fragment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (mermaid, fragment), 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:pg27200:76:17 # text = The mermaid kissed his high, smooth forehead, and stroked back his wet hair; he seemed to her like the marble statue in her little garden, and she kissed him again, and wished that he might live. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 marble marble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | past | the mermaid | fragment's high smooth forehead | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent | | 2 | **stroke back** | past | the mermaid *not said here* | fragment's wet hair | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer | | 3 | **seem** | past | fragment | | mermaid | | | like the marble statue in mermaid's little garden | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **kiss** | past | mermaid | fragment | | | again | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **wish** | past | the mermaid *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **live** | might | fragment | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/18/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/)