Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 177

There are some men who cannot endure the smell of brown paper; it makes them ill.

Who acts: men, smell, brown paper · What happens: be, not endure, make, smell · To what, where: smell, expenses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, smell, brown paper), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 endure	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 endure	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 endure	advmod
8	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 men	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smell	det
10	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 endure	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 paper	case
12	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 paper	amod
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smell	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	nsubj
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	obj
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 makes	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	some men		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not endure	can	some men	the smell of brown paper			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smell=Circumstance
3	make	present	smell	expenses = expense		ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
4	smell		brown paper				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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