The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 49

This path had a hedge of roses on each side of it, and the merchant thought he had never seen or smelt such exquisite flowers.

Who acts: path, merchant · What happens: have, think, not see, smelt · To what, where: hedge, such exquisite flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, merchant), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 path	det
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hedge	det
5	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 roses	case
7	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedge	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roses	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 side	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 thought	ccomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 smelt	cc
23	smelt	smelt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 seen	conj
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flowers	amod
25	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flowers	amod
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smelt	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	this path	a hedge of roses on each side of side	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	the merchant		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not see	past · perfect	merchant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	smelt	participle	merchant not said here	such exquisite flowers	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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