The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 11

In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to the ceiling, where heaps of flies were sitting, and attracted them to such an extent that they swarmed on to it in masses.

Who acts: smell, heaps, sweet jam · What happens: rise, sit, attract, such, swarm on, smell · To what, where: meantime, heaps, extent, smell, masses

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, heaps, sweet jam), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 jam	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jam	det
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jam	amod
9	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	nmod
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ceiling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ceiling	det
13	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sitting	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 sitting	advmod
16	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sitting	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 flies	case
18	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heaps	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sitting	aux
20	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ceiling	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 attracted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 attracted	cc
23	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rose	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 attracted	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 such	mark
26	such	such	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 attracted	advcl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 extent	det
28	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 such	obj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 swarmed	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 swarmed	nsubj
31	swarmed	swarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 extent	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 swarmed	compound:prt
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 swarmed	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 masses	case
36	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 swarmed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the smell of the sweet jam			the meantime	to the ceiling	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location
2	sit	past · progressive	heaps of flies					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attract	past	the smell of the sweet jam not said here	heaps = heap				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	such	to-infinitive	the smell of the sweet jam not said here	a extent				tree rules
5	swarm on	past	heaps = heap	a extent not said here	smell	masses		vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location extent=Theme
6	smell		the sweet jam					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 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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