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title: In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to the ceiling, wher… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to the ceiling, where heaps of flies were sitting, and attracted them to such an extent that they swarmed on to it in masses. Who acts: smell, heaps, sweet jam. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its depen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 11

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In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to the ceiling, where heaps of flies were sitting, and attracted them to such an extent that they swarmed on to it in masses.

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**Who acts:** smell, heaps, sweet jam · **What happens:** rise, sit, attract, such, swarm on, smell · **To what, where:** meantime, heaps, extent, smell, masses

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, heaps, sweet jam), 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:pg503:42:11
# text = In the meantime the smell of the sweet jam rose to the ceiling, where heaps of flies were sitting, and attracted them to such an extent that they swarmed on to it in masses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
16	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	such	such	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	swarmed	swarm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the smell of the sweet jam |  |  | the meantime |  | to the ceiling | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | heaps of flies |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attract** | past | the smell of the sweet jam *not said here* | heaps *= heap* |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **such** | to-infinitive | the smell of the sweet jam *not said here* | a extent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **swarm on** | past | heaps *= heap* | a extent *not said here* | smell | masses |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location extent=Theme |
| 6 | **smell** |  | the sweet jam |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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:** «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.

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