Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 118

I can smell," he would say, "and many places are fragrant or beautiful according to the taste of the frequenters.

Who acts: I, tumult, many places · What happens: smell, say, be, accord, taste · To what, where: frequenters · 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, many places), 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	_	8 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fragrant	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 places	amod
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fragrant	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fragrant	cop
15	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 beautiful	cc
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fragrant	conj
18	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 taste	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 according	fixed
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 taste	det
21	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 frequenters	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 frequenters	det
24	frequenters	frequenter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taste	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	can	I		accord the taste of the frequenters	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
3	is	present	many places		fragrant property	tree rules
4	be		many places not said here			tree rules
5	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	taste			the frequenters		nom taste «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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