Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 49

There was a sweet fragrance from the fresh green verdure, and the birds almost perched upon her shoulders.

Who acts: sweet fragrance, birds · What happens: be, perch · To what, where: shoulders

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet fragrance, birds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fragrance	det
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fragrance	amod
5	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 verdure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 verdure	det
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 verdure	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 verdure	amod
10	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fragrance	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 perched	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 perched	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 perched	nsubj
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 perched	advmod
16	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 shoulders	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulders	nmod:poss
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 perched	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a sweet fragrance from the fresh green verdure			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perch	past	the birds			fragrance's shoulders		almost property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location

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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