Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 84

And during their whole flight the elder-tree smelt so sweetly; he noticed the roses and the fresh beeches, but the elder-tree smelt much stronger, for the flowers were fixed on the little girl's bosom, against which the boy often rested his head during the flight.

Who acts: smelt, boy, little girl · What happens: notice, fix, rest, bosom · To what, where: roses, flowers, bosom, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smelt, boy, little girl), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 flight	cc
2	during	during	ADP	_	5 flight	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flight	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flight	amod
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 smelt	det
7	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smelt	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 elder	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smelt	compound
10	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flight	nmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 sweetly	advmod
12	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	10 smelt	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 noticed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 noticed	nsubj
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 smelt	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roses	det
17	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 noticed	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beeches	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beeches	det
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beeches	amod
21	beeches	beech	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 roses	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stronger	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 stronger	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 smelt	det
25	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 elder	punct
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smelt	compound
28	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stronger	nsubj
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 stronger	advmod
30	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 noticed	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fixed	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 fixed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flowers	det
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fixed	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fixed	aux:pass
36	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 stronger	parataxis
37	on	on	ADP	_	42 bosom	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 girl	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 girl	amod
40	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bosom	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 girl	case
42	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fixed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 rested	punct
44	against	against	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 rested	obl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 boy	det
47	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rested	nsubj
48	often	often	ADV	_	49 rested	advmod
49	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fixed	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 head	nmod:poss
51	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rested	obj
52	during	during	ADP	_	54 flight	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 flight	det
54	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rested	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	smelt	the roses and the fresh beeches				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus
2	fix	past · passive		the flowers	the little girl's bosom			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
3	rest	past	the boy	boy's head		during the flight	often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme against which=Location
4	bosom		the little girl					nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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