Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 9

I saw large pathless forests of pine and birch trees, which smelt so strong that I sneezed and thought of sausage.

Who acts: I, large pathless forests · What happens: see, smelt, sneeze, think · To what, where: large pathless forests

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 (I, large pathless forests), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forests	amod
4	pathless	pathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forests	amod
5	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pine	case
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forests	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trees	cc
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forests	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 smelt	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 smelt	nsubj
13	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 forests	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smelt	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 sneezed	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sneezed	nsubj
18	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strong	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sneezed	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 sausage	case
22	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	large pathless forests of pine and birch trees		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus
2	smelt	present	large pathless forests of pine and birch trees		strong property	tree rules
3	sneeze	past	I			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	I not said here		of sausage	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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