Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 198
She heard the song of the birds, and smelt the scent of the orange groves and apple orchards so strongly that she seemed to taste it.
Who acts: page, birds · What happens: hear, smelt, seem, taste, sing, scent · To what, where: song, scent, orange groves
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 (page, birds), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 birds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birds | det |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 song | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smelt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smelt | cc |
| 10 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scent | det |
| 12 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smelt | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 groves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 groves | det |
| 15 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 groves | amod |
| 16 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scent | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 orchards | cc |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 orchards | compound |
| 19 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 groves | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 strongly | advmod |
| 21 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 10 smelt | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 seemed | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 smelt | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 taste | mark |
| 26 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 taste | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | page | the song of the birds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smelt | past | page not said here | the scent of the orange groves and apple orchards | strongly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | past | page | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | taste | to-infinitive | page not said here | scent | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | sing | the birds | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | scent | the orange groves and apple orchards | 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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