Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 32

But what was more wonderful was that, when one put a finger into the steam rising from the pot, one could at once smell what meals they were preparing on every fire in the whole town.

Who acts: one, steam, meals · What happens: be, put, rise, smell, prepare · To what, where: finger, steam, pot, fire

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, steam, meals), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 wonderful	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wonderful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wonderful	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 wonderful	advmod
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wonderful	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 put	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 put	advmod
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wonderful	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 finger	det
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 steam	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steam	det
16	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
17	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 steam	acl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 pot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pot	det
20	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rising	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smell	punct
22	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 smell	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 smell	aux
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 smell	advmod
26	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wonderful	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 preparing	obj
28	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 preparing	nsubj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 preparing	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 preparing	aux
31	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 smell	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 fire	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 fire	det
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 preparing	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 town	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 town	det
37	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 town	amod
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 preparing	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wonderful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				wonderful property	tree rules
2	put	past	one	a finger	the steam		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
3	rise	gerund	the steam not said here		the pot		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pot=Initial_Location
4	smell	could	one			once property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	prepare	past · progressive	meals		every fire	in the whole town	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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