Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 47

The air was filled with the perfume of the wild thyme and the blossoms of the lime-trees, and the green woods on the mountains seemed to be covered with a shining veil, blue as the sky.

Who acts: green woods · What happens: fill, seem, cover, shine, perfume · To what, where: air, wild thyme

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green woods), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	aux:pass
4	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 perfume	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 perfume	det
7	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 thyme	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thyme	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thyme	amod
11	thyme	thyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perfume	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blossoms	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blossoms	det
14	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thyme	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
17	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 lime	punct
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blossoms	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seemed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woods	det
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woods	amod
24	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seemed	nsubj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 mountains	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mountains	det
27	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 woods	nmod
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 covered	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 covered	aux:pass
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seemed	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 veil	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 veil	det
34	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 veil	amod
35	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 blue	punct
37	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 veil	amod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 sky	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sky	det
40	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blue	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		the air	with the perfume of the wild thyme and the blossoms of the lime trees	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with perfume=Instrument
2	seem	past	the green woods on the mountains			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	cover	to-infinitive · passive	the green woods on the mountains not said here		with a shining veil	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with veil=Theme
4	shine	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	perfume			the wild thyme and the blossoms of the lime trees		nom perfume «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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