Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 43

I once intended to equip a ship that was to sail all round the earth; but I did not do it, although I could have done so: and then, too, I smell so deliciously, for close before the gate bloom the most beautiful roses.”

Who acts: I, ship · What happens: intend, equip, be, not do, do, smell · To what, where: ship, beautiful roses

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ship), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 intended	nsubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 intended	advmod
3	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 equip	mark
5	equip	equip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 intended	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equip	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sail	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sail	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sail	mark
11	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ship	acl:relcl
12	all	all	ADV	_	15 earth	advmod
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sail	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 do	advmod
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 intended	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 done	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 do	advcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	28 done	advmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 smell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 smell	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 smell	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 too	punct
34	too	too	ADV	_	37 smell	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 smell	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 smell	nsubj
37	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 intended	conj
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 deliciously	advmod
39	deliciously	deliciously	ADV	_	37 smell	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 close	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 close	case
42	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 smell	advmod
43	before	before	ADP	_	45 gate	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 gate	det
45	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 close	obl
46	bloom	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 smell	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 roses	det
48	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	49 beautiful	advmod
49	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 roses	amod
50	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 bloom	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 intended	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 intended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	intend	past	I			once property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	equip not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a ship			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ship=Recipient
3	is	past	a ship	a ship not said here		round the earth; sail property	tree rules
4	not do	past · do-support	I	ship			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	do	could · perfect	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	smell	present	I		then	close, deliciously property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
7	bloom	present	I not said here	the beautiful roses			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=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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