Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 120

Another prefers sitting amidst the overpowering scent of jasmine, or perfuming himself with scented olive oil.

Who acts: Another · What happens: prefer, sit, overpower, perfume, scent · To what, where: smell, jasmine

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 (Another), 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	Another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	2 prefers	nsubj
2	prefers	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 prefers	xcomp
4	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	7 scent	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 scent	det
6	overpowering	overpower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 scent	amod
7	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 jasmine	case
9	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scent	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perfuming	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 perfuming	cc
12	perfuming	perfume	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sitting	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 perfuming	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 oil	case
15	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 oil	amod
16	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 oil	compound
17	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perfuming	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prefers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Another			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sit not said to happen	gerund	Another not said here		amidst the overpowering scent of jasmine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overpower	gerund				tree rules
4	perfume	gerund	Another not said here	smell	with scented olive oil	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with oil=Theme
5	scent	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	scent			jasmine		nom scent «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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