Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 117

I can smell," he would say; and he attributed to the sense of smelling, which he possessed in a high degree, a great power in the region of the beautiful. "

Who acts: I, tumult, sense · What happens: smell, say, attribute, possess · To what, where: sense, high degree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tumult, sense), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smell	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 attributed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 attributed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 attributed	nsubj
12	attributed	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sense	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sense	det
15	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attributed	obj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 smelling	mark
17	smelling	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sense	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 possessed	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 possessed	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 possessed	nsubj
21	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sense	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 degree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 degree	det
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 degree	amod
25	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 possessed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 power	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 power	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 power	amod
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 degree	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 region	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 region	det
32	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 power	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 beautiful	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beautiful	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 region	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smell	can	I			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	tumult			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	attribute in a quote	past	tumult	the sense		tree rules
4	smell in a quote	gerund	the sense not said here			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	possess in a quote	past	tumult	the sense	a high degree and a great power in the region of the beautiful	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=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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