The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 17

They had the scent of fir-trees.

Who acts: masts · What happens: have, scent · To what, where: scent, fir trees

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scent	det
4	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
6	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fir	punct
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scent	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	masts = mast	the scent of fir trees					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient
2	scent			fir trees					nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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