Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 40

I could smell the violets, even while I was placing warm penny pieces against the frozen panes to make peep-holes, and a pretty view it was on which I peeped.

Who acts: I, view, pretty view · What happens: smell, place, make, be, peep · To what, where: violets, warm penny pieces, frozen panes, peep holes

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 (I, view, pretty view), 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	3 smell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 violets	det
5	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 placing	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 placing	advmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 placing	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 placing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placing	aux
11	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 smell	advcl
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pieces	amod
13	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pieces	compound
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 placing	obj
15	against	against	ADP	_	18 panes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 panes	det
17	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 panes	amod
18	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 placing	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 placing	advcl
21	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holes	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 peep	punct
23	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 peeped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 peeped	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 view	det
27	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 view	amod
28	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 peeped	nsubj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 which	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 which	cop
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 peeped	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 peeped	nsubj
34	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smell	could	I	the violets		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer violet=Stimulus
2	place	past · progressive	I	warm penny pieces	the frozen panes	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme against pane=Destination
3	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	peep holes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
4	is	past	view			tree rules
5	peep	past	a pretty view			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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