Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 66
Then there came to him the fragrance of thyme, followed by the more powerful scent of honeysuckle and violets; and he fancied he heard the note of the cuckoo.
Who acts: fragrance, summit · What happens: come, follow, fancy, hear, scent, note · To what, where: summit, fragrance, note, honeysuckle, cuckoo
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fragrance, summit), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fragrance | det |
| 7 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 thyme | case |
| 9 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fragrance | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fragrance | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 scent | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scent | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 powerful | advmod |
| 15 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 scent | amod |
| 16 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 honeysuckle | case |
| 18 | honeysuckle | honeysuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scent | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 violets | cc |
| 20 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 honeysuckle | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fancied | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fancied | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fancied | nsubj |
| 24 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fancied | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 note | det |
| 28 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cuckoo | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cuckoo | det |
| 31 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 note | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fragrance of thyme | summit | there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | follow | participle | the fragrance of thyme not said here | by the powerful scent of honeysuckle and violets | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by scent=Location | ||||
| 3 | fancy | past | summit | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | summit | the note of the cuckoo | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | scent | honeysuckle and violets | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | note | the cuckoo | nom note «communication 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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