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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 92

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He gazed at the flower, smelt it, and found it gave the same strong strange perfume which came from the soup the old woman had made him.

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**Who acts:** scent, flower, same strong strange perfume, soup · **What happens:** gaze, smelt, find, give, come, make · **To what, where:** flower, same strong strange perfume, soup, old woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (scent, flower, same strong strange perfume, soup), 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:pg641:26:92
# text = He gazed at the flower, smelt it, and found it gave the same strong strange perfume which came from the soup the old woman had made him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	smelt	smelt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | scent |  |  |  |  | at the flower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme |
| 2 | **smelt** | infinitive | scent *not said here* | flower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | flower | the same strong strange perfume |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the same strong strange perfume |  |  | the soup |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from soup=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the soup *not said here* | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |

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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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