Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 8

It smelt so sweet that all cares and sorrows were forgotten by him who inhaled its fragrance.

Who acts: flower, tree · What happens: smelt, forget, inhale · To what, where: cares, fragrance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (flower, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelt	nsubj
2	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 sweet	advmod
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smelt	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 forgotten	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cares	det
7	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 forgotten	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sorrows	cc
9	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cares	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forgotten	aux:pass
11	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 smelt	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgotten	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 inhaled	nsubj
15	inhaled	inhale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forgotten	ccomp
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fragrance	nmod:poss
17	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inhaled	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smelt	past	flower		sweet property	tree rules
2	forget	past · passive	tree	all cares and sorrows		tree rules
3	inhale	past		flower's fragrance		vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=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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