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title: The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup tasted both sweet and sharp at the same time, and was very strong. Who acts: smell, soup, herbs. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 73

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The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup tasted both sweet and sharp at the same time, and was very strong.

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**Who acts:** smell, soup, herbs · **What happens:** rise, taste, be, smell · **To what, where:** bowl

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, soup, herbs), 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:pg641:26:73
# text = The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup tasted both sweet and sharp at the same time, and was very strong.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 herbs and spices |  |  | the bowl |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bowl=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **taste** | past | the soup |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the smell of the herbs and spices *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **smell** |  | the herbs and spices |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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