Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 114

The young wife wiped the dirt off the soldier, first with a green leaf, and then with her fine handkerchief--it had such a delightful smell, that it was to the pewter soldier just as if he had awaked from a trance.

Who acts: young wife, dirt, relief · What happens: wipe, have, be, awak · To what, where: dirt, soldier, delightful smell, trance

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young wife, dirt, relief), 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	3 wife	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiped	nsubj
4	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dirt	det
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiped	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 soldier	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leaf	punct
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 leaf	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 leaf	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 leaf	det
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 leaf	amod
15	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 handkerchief	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 handkerchief	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 handkerchief	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 handkerchief	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 handkerchief	nmod:poss
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 handkerchief	amod
22	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiped	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	parataxis
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 smell	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 smell	det
28	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smell	amod
29	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 soldier	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 soldier	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 soldier	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 soldier	cop
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 soldier	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 soldier	det
36	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 soldier	compound
37	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	parataxis
38	just	just	ADV	_	43 awaked	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 awaked	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 awaked	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 awaked	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 awaked	aux
43	awaked	awak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 soldier	advcl
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 trance	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 trance	det
46	trance	trance	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 awaked	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wipe	past	the young wife	the dirt	the soldier	with a green leaf; with wife's fine handkerchief	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme off soldier=Trajectory
2	have	past	dirt	such delightful smell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient
3	is	past	dirt			to the pewter soldier	tree rules
4	awak	past · perfect	relief		a trance		tree rules

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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