The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 73
The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup tasted both sweet and sharp at the same time, and was very strong.
Who acts: smell, soup, herbs · What happens: rise, taste, be, smell · To what, where: bowl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (smell, soup, herbs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 herbs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 herbs | det |
| 5 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smell | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spices | cc |
| 7 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 herbs | conj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bowl | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bowl | det |
| 11 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tasted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tasted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soup | det |
| 15 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 16 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sweet | advmod |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tasted | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sharp | cc |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sweet | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sweet | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 strong | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 strong | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 strong | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 strong | advmod |
| 29 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the smell of the herbs and spices | the bowl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bowl=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | taste | past | the soup | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the smell of the herbs and spices not said here | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | smell | the herbs and spices | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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