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title: I can smell," he would say, "and many places are fragrant or beautif… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I can smell," he would say, "and many places are fragrant or beautiful according to the taste of the frequenters. Who acts: I, tumult, many places. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 118

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I can smell," he would say, "and many places are fragrant or beautiful according to the taste of the frequenters.

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**Who acts:** I, tumult, many places · **What happens:** smell, say, be, accord, taste · **To what, where:** frequenters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tumult, many places), 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:pg27200:143:118
# text = I can smell," he would say, "and many places are fragrant or beautiful according to the taste of the frequenters.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	frequenters	frequenter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | I |  |  |  |  | accord the taste of the frequenters | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | tumult |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | many places |  |  |  |  | fragrant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | many places *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **taste** |  |  | the frequenters |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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