Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 20

I met several new ships when I flew from Egypt, and they had fine masts that smelt like fir.

Who acts: I, swallows, fine masts · What happens: meet, fly, have, smelt · To what, where: several new ships, Egypt, fine masts

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swallows, fine masts), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ships	amod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ships	amod
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 met	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 flew	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Egypt	case
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 masts	amod
16	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 smelt	nsubj
18	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 masts	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 fir	case
20	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smelt	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	I	several new ships			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent
2	fly	past	I		Egypt		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Trajectory
3	have	past	swallows = swallow	fine masts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Patient
4	smelt	present	fine masts			like fir	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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