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title: But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger in the smok… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger in the smoke of the kitchen-pot, immediately smelt all the dishes that were cooking on every hearth in the city--this, you see, was something quite different from the rose. Who acts: whoever, dishes, you, kitchen pot. A sentence of «Andersen's
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 42

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But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger in the smoke of the kitchen-pot, immediately smelt all the dishes that were cooking on every hearth in the city--this, you see, was something quite different from the rose.

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**Who acts:** whoever, dishes, you, kitchen pot · **What happens:** be, hold, smelt, cook, see, smoke · **To what, where:** finger, smoke, dishes, something

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, 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 (whoever, dishes, you, kitchen pot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:3:42
# text = But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger in the smoke of the kitchen-pot, immediately smelt all the dishes that were cooking on every hearth in the city--this, you see, was something quite different from the rose.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	smelt	smelt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	parataxis	_	_
43	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | still | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | whoever | Augustine's finger |  | the smoke of the kitchen pot |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in smoke=Location |
| 3 | **smelt** | infinitive |  | all dishes |  |  |  | this *obl*; immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cook** | past · progressive | all dishes |  |  |  |  | on every hearth in the city | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on hearth=Instrument |
| 5 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **smoke** |  | the kitchen pot |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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