Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 80
People were standing round the bed, and saying that the scent of the jasmine had killed him.
Who acts: People · What happens: stand, say, kill, scent · To what, where: scent, jasmine · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 standing | aux |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 standing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saying | cc |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 standing | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 killed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scent | det |
| 12 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 jasmine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jasmine | det |
| 15 | jasmine | jasmine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scent | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | People | round the bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | People not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the scent of the jasmine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | |||||
| 4 | scent | the jasmine | nom scent «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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