Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 227

The fragrance around him overpowered his senses, the music from the harps sounded more entrancing, while around the tree appeared millions of smiling faces, nodding and singing. "

Who acts: fragrance, harps, tree · What happens: overpower, sound, entrance, appear, smile, nod · To what, where: senses, millions

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 (fragrance, harps, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fragrance	det
2	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overpowered	nsubj
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fragrance	nmod
5	overpowered	overpower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 senses	nmod:poss
7	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 overpowered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 music	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 music	det
10	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 senses	conj
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 sounded	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 harps	det
13	harps	harp	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sounded	nsubj
14	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overpowered	advcl
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 sounded	advmod
16	entrancing	entrance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 more	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 appeared	mark
19	around	around	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sounded	conj
23	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 appeared	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 faces	case
25	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 faces	amod
26	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 millions	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 nodding	punct
28	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 appeared	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 singing	cc
30	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 nodding	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overpowered	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 overpowered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	overpower	past	the fragrance around voice	voice's senses and the music	tree rules
2	sound	past	the harps		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	entrance	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	appear	past	the tree	millions of smiling faces	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location million=Theme
5	smile	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	nod	gerund	the tree not said here		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sing speech: express	gerund	the tree not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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