The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 36

This time she was expecting him, the path was strewn with flowers, and a thousand braziers were burning scented woods which perfumed the air.

Who acts: princess, path, thousand braziers, scented woods · What happens: expect, be, burn, scent, perfume · To what, where: successor, scented woods, air

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, path, thousand braziers, scented woods), 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 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expecting	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expecting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expecting	aux
5	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expecting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strewn	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strewn	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 strewn	cop
11	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 expecting	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 flowers	case
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 strewn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burning	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 braziers	det
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 braziers	nummod
18	braziers	brazier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burning	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 burning	aux
20	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 expecting	conj
21	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 woods	amod
22	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burning	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 perfumed	nsubj
24	perfumed	perfume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 woods	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perfumed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 expecting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · progressive	princess	successor	time		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	past	the path			with flowers; strewn property	tree rules
3	burn	past · progressive	a thousand braziers	scented woods			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	scent	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	perfume	past	scented woods	the air			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Destination

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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