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title: And during their whole flight the elder-tree smelt so sweetly; he no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And during their whole flight the elder-tree smelt so sweetly; he noticed the roses and the fresh beeches, but the elder-tree smelt much stronger, for the flowers were fixed on the little girl's bosom, against which the boy often rested his head during the flight. Who acts: smelt, boy, little girl. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 84

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And during their whole flight the elder-tree smelt so sweetly; he noticed the roses and the fresh beeches, but the elder-tree smelt much stronger, for the flowers were fixed on the little girl's bosom, against which the boy often rested his head during the flight.

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**Who acts:** smelt, boy, little girl · **What happens:** notice, fix, rest, bosom · **To what, where:** roses, flowers, bosom, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smelt, boy, little girl), 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:pg27200:72:84
# text = And during their whole flight the elder-tree smelt so sweetly; he noticed the roses and the fresh beeches, but the elder-tree smelt much stronger, for the flowers were fixed on the little girl's bosom, against which the boy often rested his head during the flight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	smelt	smelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	smelt	smelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	parataxis	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	against	against	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	often	often	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	during	during	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	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 | **notice** | past | smelt | the roses and the fresh beeches |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fix** | past · passive |  | the flowers |  | the little girl's bosom |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **rest** | past | the boy | boy's head |  |  | during the flight | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme against which=Location |
| 4 | **bosom** |  | the little girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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:** «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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