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title: She heard the song of the birds, and smelt the scent of the orange g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She heard the song of the birds, and smelt the scent of the orange groves and apple orchards so strongly that she seemed to taste it. Who acts: page, birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 198

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She heard the song of the birds, and smelt the scent of the orange groves and apple orchards so strongly that she seemed to taste it.

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**Who acts:** page, birds · **What happens:** hear, smelt, seem, taste, sing, scent · **To what, where:** song, scent, orange groves

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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 (page, birds), 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:pg27200:143:198
# text = She heard the song of the birds, and smelt the scent of the orange groves and apple orchards so strongly that she seemed to taste it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | page | the song of the birds |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 2 | **smelt** | past | page *not said here* | the scent of the orange groves and apple orchards |  |  |  | strongly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | page |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **taste** | to-infinitive | page *not said here* | scent |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 5 | **sing** |  | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **scent** |  |  | the orange groves and apple orchards |  |  |  |  | nom scent «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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