Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 57

The smell was so powerful that the mouse-king ordered the mice who stood nearest the chimney to thrust their tails into the fire, that there might be a smell of burning, for the perfume of the violets was overpowering, and not the sort of scent that every one liked.

Who acts: smell, mouse king, mice, burning · What happens: be, order, stand, thrust, overpower, like · To what, where: mice, nearest chimney, tails, fire, sort, violets

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 (smell, mouse king, mice, burning), 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	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 powerful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 powerful	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 powerful	advmod
5	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 ordered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 mouse	punct
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ordered	nsubj
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 powerful	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mice	det
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ordered	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mice	acl:relcl
16	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 chimney	amod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chimney	det
18	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 thrust	mark
20	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stood	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tails	nmod:poss
22	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thrust	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrust	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 be	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 be	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 be	expl
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 be	aux
30	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 overpowering	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 smell	det
32	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 overpowering	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 burning	case
34	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 smell	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 perfume	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 perfume	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 perfume	det
38	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 overpowering	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 violets	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 violets	det
41	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 perfume	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 overpowering	aux
43	overpowering	overpower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thrust	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sort	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sort	cc
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 sort	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sort	det
48	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 powerful	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 scent	case
50	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sort	nmod
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 liked	nsubj:pass
52	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	53 one	det
53	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 liked	nsubj
54	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 sort	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 powerful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the smell				powerful property	tree rules
2	order	past	the mouse king		the mice			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	stand	past	the mice	the nearest chimney				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	thrust	to-infinitive	the mice not said here	elves's tails		the fire		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
5	be	might				there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	overpower	past · progressive	a smell of burning					tree rules
7	like	participle · passive		the sort of scent				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
8	smell		burning					nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
9	perfume			the violets				nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient
10	sort			scent				nom sort «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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