Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 27

This is a splendid spring day for a poet, the air is so remarkably clear, the clouds are so beautiful, and the green grass has such a sweet smell.

Who acts: This, air, clouds, green grass · What happens: be, have · To what, where: splendid spring day, sweet smell

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, air, clouds, green grass), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clear	parataxis
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 poet	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 poet	det
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clear	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clear	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 clear	advmod
15	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	16 clear	advmod
16	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clouds	det
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 beautiful	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 beautiful	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clear	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 has	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grass	amod
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clear	parataxis
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 smell	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 smell	det
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 smell	amod
32	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a splendid spring day	for a poet	tree rules
2	is	present	the air		clear, remarkably property	tree rules
3	is	present	the clouds		beautiful property	tree rules
4	have	present	the green grass	such sweet smell		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=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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