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title: The smell was so powerful that the mouse-king ordered the mice who s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The smell was so powerful that the mouse-king ordered the mice who stood nearest the chimney to thrust their tails into the fire, that there might be a smell of burning, for the perfume of the violets was overpowering, and not the sort of scent that every one liked. Who acts: smell, mouse king, mice
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 57

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The smell was so powerful that the mouse-king ordered the mice who stood nearest the chimney to thrust their tails into the fire, that there might be a smell of burning, for the perfume of the violets was overpowering, and not the sort of scent that every one liked.

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**Who acts:** smell, mouse king, mice, burning · **What happens:** be, order, stand, thrust, overpower, like · **To what, where:** mice, nearest chimney, tails, fire, sort, violets

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, mouse king, mice, burning), 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:pg27200:179:57
# text = The smell was so powerful that the mouse-king ordered the mice who stood nearest the chimney to thrust their tails into the fire, that there might be a smell of burning, for the perfume of the violets was overpowering, and not the sort of scent that every one liked.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	overpowering	overpower	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	det	_	_
53	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the smell |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past | the mouse king |  | the mice |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the mice | the nearest chimney |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **thrust** | to-infinitive | the mice *not said here* | elves's tails |  | the fire |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | might |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **overpower** | past · progressive | a smell of burning |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **like** | participle · passive |  | the sort of scent |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **smell** |  | burning |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **perfume** |  |  | the violets |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | scent |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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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