Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 42
But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger in the smoke of the kitchen-pot, immediately smelt all the dishes that were cooking on every hearth in the city--this, you see, was something quite different from the rose.
Who acts: whoever, dishes, you, kitchen pot · What happens: be, hold, smelt, cook, see, smoke · To what, where: finger, smoke, dishes, something
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, dishes, you, kitchen pot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 curious | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 curious | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 curious | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 curious | advmod |
| 6 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 8 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 held | nsubj |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 curious | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 finger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 smoke | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smoke | det |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pot | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pot | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 kitchen | punct |
| 19 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smoke | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smelt | punct |
| 21 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 22 smelt | advmod |
| 22 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 curious | parataxis |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 dishes | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dishes | det |
| 25 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 smelt | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 cooking | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cooking | aux |
| 28 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 dishes | acl:relcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 hearth | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 hearth | det |
| 31 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cooking | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 city | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 city | det |
| 34 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hearth | nmod |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 this | punct |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 smelt | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 see | nsubj |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 something | csubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 something | cop |
| 42 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 smelt | parataxis |
| 43 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 44 different | advmod |
| 44 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 something | amod |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 rose | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 rose | det |
| 47 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 different | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | still | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | whoever | Augustine's finger | the smoke of the kitchen pot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in smoke=Location | |||
| 3 | smelt | infinitive | all dishes | this obl; immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cook | past · progressive | all dishes | on every hearth in the city | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on hearth=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | something | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | smoke | the kitchen pot | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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