Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 66

Then he seated himself by her ear, talked to her of that evening in the arbor, of the sweet perfume of the rose, and the loves of the elves.

Who acts: elf · What happens: seat, talk, love, perfume · To what, where: elf, girl, rose

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seated	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ear	nmod:poss
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct
9	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 arbor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 arbor	det
17	arbor	arbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 evening	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perfume	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 perfume	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 perfume	det
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 perfume	amod
22	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rose	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rose	det
25	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perfume	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 loves	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 loves	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 loves	det
29	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 elves	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 elves	det
32	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 loves	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past	elf	elf		then	by girl's ear	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	talk	past	elf not said here		girl	evening	of the sweet perfume of the rose	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	love	present	elf not said here				of the elves	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	perfume			the rose				nom perfume «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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