Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 145
Then, they turned southward, and the air became fragrant with the perfume of spices and flowers.
Who acts: Winds, air · What happens: turn, become, perfume · To what, where: spices
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winds, air), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 11 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 perfume | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 perfume | det |
| 14 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 spices | case |
| 16 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 perfume | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flowers | cc |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spices | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Winds = wind | then | southward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | the air | with the perfume of spices and flowers; fragrant property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | perfume | spices and flowers | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=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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