Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 35

What a delightful perfume," said he; "it reminds me of the violets at Aunt Lora's.

Who acts: delightful perfume, transition · What happens: say, remind · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (delightful perfume, transition), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 perfume	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 perfume	det
3	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 perfume	amod
4	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perfume	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 perfume	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 reminds	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 reminds	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reminds	nsubj
12	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 reminds	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 violets	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 violets	det
16	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reminds	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 Lora	case
18	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Lora	compound
19	Lora	Lora	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 violets	nmod
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Lora	case
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	what delightful perfume						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	remind speech: other	present	transition		me			of the violets at Aunt Lora	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of violet=Topic

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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