Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 18

"It was the height of summer, which the mice told me was the reason that the forest smelt so strong, and that the herbs were so fragrant, and the lakes with the white swimming swans so dark, and yet so clear.

Who acts: thing, mice, herbs, lakes · What happens: be, tell, swan · To what, where: height, reason, forests · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, mice, herbs, lakes), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 height	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 height	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 height	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 height	det
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 summer	case
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 height	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 told	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mice	det
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reason	csubj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reason	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 height	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 strong	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 smelt	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smelt	compound
20	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strong	nsubj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 strong	advmod
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reason	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fragrant	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fragrant	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fragrant	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 herbs	det
27	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fragrant	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fragrant	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 fragrant	advmod
30	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 strong	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 swans	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 swans	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lakes	det
34	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 swans	nsubj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 swimming	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 swimming	det
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 swimming	amod
38	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lakes	nmod
39	swans	swan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reason	parataxis
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 dark	advmod
41	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 swans	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 clear	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 clear	cc
44	yet	yet	ADV	_	46 clear	advmod
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 clear	advmod
46	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 swans	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 height	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	thing	the height		summer		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the mice	the reason	forests = forest			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=Topic
3	is a in a quote	past		the reason				tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	the herbs				fragrant property	tree rules
5	swan in a quote	present	the lakes with the white swimming				dark property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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