--- title: As she bent over them, enjoying their delicious scent, a soft voice,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As she bent over them, enjoying their delicious scent, a soft voice, that seemed to rustle among the leaves, said: Who acts: Princess, soft voice, legs. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/) / 86 # The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 86 As she bent over them, enjoying their delicious scent, a soft voice, that seemed to rustle among the leaves, said: **Who acts:** Princess, soft voice, legs · **What happens:** bend, enjoy, seem, rustle, say, scent · **To what, where:** delicious scent, leaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, soft voice, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:22:86 # text = As she bent over them, enjoying their delicious scent, a soft voice, that seemed to rustle among the leaves, said: 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 enjoying enjoy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 rustle rustle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 among among ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | past | Princess | | | | | over legs *= leg* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | | 2 | **enjoy** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | legs's delicious scent and a soft voice | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scent=Stimulus | | 3 | **seem** | past | a soft voice | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **rustle** | to-infinitive | a soft voice *not said here* | | | the leaves | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **scent** | | legs *= leg* | | | | | | nom scent «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/87/) - ↑ back to [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/)