The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 98
It gave out a strong sweet scent, which reminded him of the day of his enchantment.
Who acts: more, strong sweet scent, dwarf · What happens: give out, remind, enchant · To what, where: strong sweet scent, dwarf
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, strong sweet scent, dwarf), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 gave | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scent | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 scent | amod |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 scent | amod |
| 7 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reminded | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 reminded | nsubj |
| 10 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 scent | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reminded | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reminded | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 enchantment | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 enchantment | nmod:poss |
| 17 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give out | past | more | a strong sweet scent | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | past | a strong sweet scent | dwarf | day | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | enchant | dwarf | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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