Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 52
She was so scented with wild-thyme, that it made the sentry sneeze.
Who acts: thyme · What happens: scent, make · To what, where: lady, sentry sneeze
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thyme), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scented | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scented | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 scented | advmod |
| 4 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thyme | case |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thyme | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 wild | punct |
| 8 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scented | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sneeze | det |
| 14 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sneeze | compound |
| 15 | sneeze | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scent | past · passive | lady | with wild thyme | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with thyme=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | thyme | the sentry sneeze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sneeze=Product |
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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