Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 108

The odour of the flowers says they are corpses; the evening bell tolls for the dead!”

Who acts: odour, worms, evening bell · What happens: say, be, toll · To what, where: corpses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (odour, worms, evening bell), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 odour	det
2	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 odour	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 corpses	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 corpses	cop
9	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tolls	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bell	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bell	compound
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tolls	nsubj
14	tolls	toll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 dead	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dead	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tolls	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 tolls	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the odour of the flowers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	worms = worm	corpses		tree rules
3	toll	present	the evening bell		for the dead	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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