--- title: A sweet fragrance was smelt, and the maidens vanished in the wood; t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A sweet fragrance was smelt, and the maidens vanished in the wood; the fragrance grew stronger--three coffins, and in them three lovely maidens, glided out of the forest and across the lake: the shining glow-worms flew around like little floating lights. Who acts: sweet fragrance, maidens, fragrance --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Snow Queen, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/) / 106 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 106 A sweet fragrance was smelt, and the maidens vanished in the wood; the fragrance grew stronger--three coffins, and in them three lovely maidens, glided out of the forest and across the lake: the shining glow-worms flew around like little floating lights. **Who acts:** sweet fragrance, maidens, fragrance, shining glow worms · **What happens:** be, vanish, grow, glide, shine, fly around · **To what, where:** smelt, wood, three coffins, three lovely maidens, forest This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet fragrance, maidens, fragrance, shining glow worms), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:12:106 # text = A sweet fragrance was smelt, and the maidens vanished in the wood; the fragrance grew stronger--three coffins, and in them three lovely maidens, glided out of the forest and across the lake: the shining glow-worms flew around like little floating lights. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fragrance fragrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 smelt smelt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fragrance fragrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 coffins coffin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 glided glide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 31 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 across across ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 amod _ _ 42 glow glow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 46 around around ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 like like ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 49 floating floating NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | a sweet fragrance | smelt | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **vanish** | past | the maidens | | | the wood | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | the fragrance | three coffins | | | | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **glide** | participle | | three lovely maidens *not said here* | | the forest and the lake | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out forest=Trajectory | | 5 | **shine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fly around** | past | the shining glow worms | | | | | like little floating lights; around *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/107/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/)