Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 106

A sweet fragrance was smelt, and the maidens vanished in the wood; the fragrance grew stronger--three coffins, and in them three lovely maidens, glided out of the forest and across the lake: the shining glow-worms flew around like little floating lights.

Who acts: sweet fragrance, maidens, fragrance, shining glow worms · What happens: be, vanish, grow, glide, shine, fly around · To what, where: smelt, wood, three coffins, three lovely maidens, forest

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (sweet fragrance, maidens, fragrance, shining glow worms), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fragrance	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fragrance	amod
3	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smelt	cop
5	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vanished	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vanished	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maidens	det
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vanished	nsubj
10	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smelt	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vanished	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fragrance	det
16	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 vanished	conj
18	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 coffins	punct
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 coffins	nummod
21	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 maidens	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 maidens	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 maidens	obl
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 maidens	nummod
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 maidens	amod
28	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 glided	punct
30	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 maidens	acl
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 forest	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 forest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 forest	det
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glided	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lake	cc
36	across	across	ADP	_	38 lake	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lake	det
38	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 forest	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 flew	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 worms	det
41	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 worms	amod
42	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 worms	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 glow	punct
44	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 flew	nsubj
45	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 maidens	parataxis
46	around	around	ADV	_	45 flew	advmod
47	like	like	ADP	_	50 lights	case
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 lights	amod
49	floating	floating	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lights	compound
50	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 flew	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a sweet fragrance	smelt			tree rules
2	vanish	past	the maidens		the wood		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the fragrance	three coffins		strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	glide	participle		three lovely maidens not said here	the forest and the lake		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out forest=Trajectory
5	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly around	past	the shining glow worms			like little floating lights; around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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