Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 28

Then the old steward says, 'I smell flowers here,' but he cannot see them."

Who acts: old steward, I, steward · What happens: say, smell, not see · To what, where: flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old steward, I, steward), 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	5 says	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 steward	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 steward	amod
4	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smell	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 smell	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 smell	nsubj
9	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smell	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 smell	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smell	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 smell	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the old steward			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell	present	I	flowers	here		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
3	not see	can	steward	flowers = flower			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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