Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 111

And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the Elder Tree had a more wondrous fragrance, for its flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden; and there, too, did he often lay his head during the flight.

Who acts: Elder Tree, tree · What happens: smelt, remark, have, hang, lie · To what, where: roses, wondrous fragrance, flowers, breast, head

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elder Tree, tree), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 smelt	cc
2	during	during	ADP	_	5 flight	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flight	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flight	amod
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smelt	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tree	det
7	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tree	compound
8	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 smelt	nsubj
9	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sweet	advmod
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smelt	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 odorous	cc
13	odorous	odorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sweet	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 remarked	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remarked	nsubj
16	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smelt	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roses	det
18	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remarked	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beeches	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beeches	det
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beeches	amod
22	beeches	beech	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roses	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Tree	det
26	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Tree	compound
27	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 remarked	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fragrance	det
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 wondrous	advmod
31	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fragrance	amod
32	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flowers	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 flowers	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 flowers	nmod:poss
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obl
37	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 flowers	acl
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 breast	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 breast	det
40	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hung	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 maiden	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 maiden	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 maiden	amod
44	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 breast	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 there	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 there	cc
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 smelt	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 too	punct
49	too	too	ADV	_	47 there	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 lay	punct
51	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 lay	aux
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 lay	nsubj
53	often	often	ADV	_	54 lay	advmod
54	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smelt	parataxis
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 head	nmod:poss
56	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lay	obj
57	during	during	ADP	_	59 flight	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 flight	det
59	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lay	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	the Elder Tree			during sparks's whole flight		tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	past	tree	the roses and the fresh beeches				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rose=Topic
3	have	past	the Elder Tree	a wondrous fragrance			for hand's flowers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Patient
4	hang	participle		hand's flowers not said here	the breast of the little maiden			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on breast=Location
5	lie	past · do-support	tree	tree's head		during the flight	often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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