Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 6

It had such a sweet scent that one instantly forgot all sorrow and grief when one smelt it.

Who acts: tree, one · What happens: have, forget, smelt · To what, where: sweet scent, sorrow, tree

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 (tree, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 scent	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scent	det
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scent	amod
6	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 forgot	mark
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 forgot	nsubj
9	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	10 forgot	advmod
10	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorrow	det
12	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgot	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grief	cc
14	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sorrow	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 smelt	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 smelt	nsubj
17	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forgot	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 smelt	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	tree	such sweet scent		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient
2	forget	past	one	all sorrow and grief	instantly property	tree rules
3	smelt	past	one	tree		tree rules

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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