Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 93

About her dress, about her yellow curled hair, there was a fragrance as of a fresh-blown rose; and to think that he had once divided his bread and butter with her, and that she had eaten it with enormous appetite, and nodded to him at every second mouthful!

Who acts: Miss · What happens: curl, blow, think, divide, eat, be · To what, where: fragrance, butter, second mouthful

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss), 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	About	about	ADP	_	3 dress	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dress	nmod:poss
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 hair	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
8	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dress	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dress	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 nodded	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fragrance	det
14	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
15	as	as	ADP	_	21 rose	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 rose	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rose	det
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blown	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fresh	punct
20	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 rose	amod
21	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 think	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 think	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 was	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 divided	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 divided	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 divided	aux
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 divided	advmod
30	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 think	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bread	nmod:poss
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 divided	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 butter	cc
34	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bread	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 divided	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 eaten	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 eaten	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 eaten	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 eaten	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 eaten	aux
42	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 think	advcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 eaten	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 appetite	case
45	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 appetite	amod
46	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 eaten	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 nodded	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 nodded	cc
49	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 nodded	obl
52	at	at	ADP	_	55 mouthful	case
53	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 mouthful	det
54	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	55 mouthful	amod
55	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 nodded	obl
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	curl	participle						vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	blow	participle						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	divide	past · perfect · passive		fragrance			with Miss; once property	tree rules
5	eat	past · perfect	Miss	butter			with enormous appetite	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	is	past			fragrance	every second mouthful	nod property	tree rules

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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