Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 37

“The sweet air!” continued he of the police-office, in his dreamy imaginings; “how it reminds me of the violets in the garden of my aunt Magdalena!

Who acts: sweet air, reader · What happens: continue, remind · To what, where: dreamy imaginings, transition

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet air, reader), 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	_	7 continued	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 air	amod
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 air	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 air	punct
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 continued	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 police	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 police	det
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 continued	obl
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 office	punct
13	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 police	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imaginings	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 imaginings	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 imaginings	nmod:poss
17	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 imaginings	amod
18	imaginings	imagining	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 continued	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 reminds	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 reminds	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 reminds	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reminds	nsubj
23	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 continued	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 reminds	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 violets	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 violets	det
27	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reminds	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 garden	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 garden	det
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 violets	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 aunt	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 aunt	nmod:poss
33	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 garden	nmod
34	Magdalena	Magdalena	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 aunt	appos
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the sweet air			air's dreamy imaginings		of the police and office	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of police=Initial_Location
2	remind speech: other in a quote	present	reader		the transition from a commonplace nature to one = transition			of the violets in the garden of my aunt	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of violet=Topic

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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