Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 64

There was a peculiar fragrance about them all, for they were incense vessels, which had been swung before the altars in the temples by the Christian priests.

Who acts: peculiar fragrance, vessels, Christian priests · What happens: be, swing · To what, where: incense vessels, altars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peculiar fragrance, vessels, Christian priests), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fragrance	det
4	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fragrance	amod
5	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fragrance	nmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vessels	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 vessels	case
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vessels	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vessels	cop
13	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vessels	compound
14	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 swung	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 swung	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 swung	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 swung	aux:pass
19	swung	swing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 vessels	conj
20	before	before	ADP	_	22 altars	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 altars	det
22	altars	altar	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 swung	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 temples	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 temples	det
25	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 altars	nmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 priests	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 priests	det
28	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 priests	amod
29	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 swung	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a peculiar fragrance about vessels		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	vessels = vessel			for incense vessels	tree rules
3	swing	past · perfect · passive	the Christian priests	incense vessels	the altars in the temples		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme before altar=Location

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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