Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 22
At these times the odor of the pepper, saffron, and ginger became more powerful than ever.
Who acts: ginger · What happens: become
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ginger), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 times | det |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 became | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 odor | det |
| 5 | odor | odor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pepper | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pepper | det |
| 8 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 odor | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saffron | punct |
| 10 | saffron | saffron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pepper | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 13 | ginger | ginger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 powerful | advmod |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 ever | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 powerful | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | ginger | time | powerful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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