Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 143

The young student kept his hand before his face, and smelt at some strong spirits that he had with him on a sponge in a little brass scent-case.

Who acts: young student, person · What happens: keep, smelt, have · To what, where: hand, face, strong spirits, sponge

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young student, person), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 student	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 student	amod
3	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smelt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smelt	cc
12	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 spirits	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 spirits	det
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spirits	amod
16	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 smelt	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smelt	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 sponge	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sponge	det
24	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	31 case	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 case	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 case	amod
28	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 case	compound
29	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 case	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 case	punct
31	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sponge	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the young student	person's hand	person's face		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme before face=Location
2	smelt	present			some strong spirits		tree rules
3	have	past	person		a sponge in a little brass scent case	with coachman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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