The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 66

But when to-morrow came there was no hill, and when the sultan opened his eyes he could not imagine why the room was so much lighter than usual, and what was the reason of the sweet smell of flowers that filled the air.

Who acts: sultan, room, sweet smell, flowers · What happens: come, be, open, not imagine, fill, smell · To what, where: morrow, hill, eyes, reason, air

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, room, sweet smell, flowers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 hill	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 morrow	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 to	punct
5	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hill	csubj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hill	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 imagine	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 imagine	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 opened	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sultan	det
15	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opened	nsubj
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 imagine	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 opened	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 imagine	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 imagine	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 imagine	advmod
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hill	parataxis
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 imagine	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lighter	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lighter	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 lighter	advmod
29	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 why	advcl:relcl
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 usual	case
31	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lighter	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reason	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 reason	cc
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 reason	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 reason	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 reason	det
37	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lighter	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 smell	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 smell	det
40	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 smell	amod
41	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reason	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 flowers	case
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 smell	nmod
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 filled	nsubj
45	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 smell	acl:relcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 air	det
47	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 filled	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past			morrow; there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location
2	is a	past		no hill			tree rules
3	open	past	the sultan	sultan's eyes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	not imagine	could	sultan				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past	the room			than usual; light property	tree rules
6	is a	past		the reason		of the sweet smell of flowers	tree rules
7	fill	past	the sweet smell of flowers	the air			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
8	smell		flowers				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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