Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 37

You know, this plant has no blossom; but it is sweetness all over,--full of fragrance from head to foot, with the scent of a flower in every leaf.

Who acts: You, plant · What happens: know, have, be, scent · To what, where: blossom, sweetness, flower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, plant), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 blossom	det
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sweetness	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sweetness	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sweetness	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sweetness	cop
13	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	parataxis
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 over	advmod
15	over	over	ADV	_	13 sweetness	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sweetness	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 fragrance	case
20	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 head	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 foot	case
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 scent	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 scent	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 scent	det
28	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sweetness	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 flower	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 flower	det
31	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scent	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 leaf	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 leaf	det
34	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flower	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present	this plant	no blossom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Patient
3	is a	present	plant	sweetness and the scent of a flower in every leaf	over property	tree rules
4	scent			a flower in every leaf		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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