Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 114

“Oh, would it were always spring in the sweetly-smelling Danish beech-forests!”

Who acts: anemony · What happens: be, smell · To what, where: spring, smelling Danish beech forests

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 (anemony), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 spring	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 spring	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spring	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spring	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spring	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 spring	advmod
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	17 forests	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forests	det
11	sweetly	sweetly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smelling	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sweetly	punct
13	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 forests	amod
14	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forests	amod
15	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forests	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 beech	punct
17	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spring	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 spring	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 spring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	would	anemony	spring		the smelling Danish beech forests		always property	tree rules
2	smell in a quote	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «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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