The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 42

But the most wonderful thing was, that when one held one’s finger in the steam of the pot, then at once one could smell what dinner was ready in any fire-place in the town.

Who acts: wonderful thing, one · What happens: be, smell · To what, where: steam, fire place

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful thing, one), 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	_	11 held	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 wonderful	advmod
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj:outer
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 held	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 held	nsubj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 held	advmod
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 finger	nummod
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 one	case
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 steam	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 steam	det
17	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pot	det
20	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 steam	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smell	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 smell	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 smell	obl
25	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 smell	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 smell	aux
27	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 held	parataxis
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 ready	nsubj
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ready	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ready	cop
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 smell	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 place	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 place	det
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 place	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 fire	punct
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ready	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 town	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 town	det
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 place	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wonderful thing	the steam of the pot		hold property	tree rules
2	smell	could	one		then		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past		any fire place in the town		ready property	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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