Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 31

He sat by her side on the open balcony, smoking a cigarette in the cool air, which was loaded with the sweet scent of carnations and orange blossoms.

Who acts: husband · What happens: sit, smoke, load, scent · To what, where: open balcony, cigarette, cool air, carnations

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (husband), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 side	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 side	nmod:poss
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 balcony	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 balcony	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 balcony	amod
9	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smoking	punct
11	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cigarette	det
13	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoking	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
16	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smoking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 loaded	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 loaded	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 loaded	aux:pass
21	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 air	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 scent	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 scent	det
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 scent	amod
25	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loaded	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 carnations	case
27	carnations	carnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 scent	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blossoms	cc
29	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 blossoms	amod
30	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carnations	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	husband		the open balcony	by wife's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
2	smoke	gerund	husband not said here	a cigarette	the cool air		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cigarette=Source
3	load	past · passive		the cool air		with the sweet scent of carnations and orange blossoms	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with scent=Theme
4	scent			carnations and orange blossoms			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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