The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 92

“Oh, well, perhaps it was that I smelt,” said the old man, and troubled himself no more.

Who acts: wool, old man · What happens: be, say, trouble · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wool, old man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 well	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	11 smelt	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	11 smelt	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smelt	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smelt	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 smelt	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 smelt	nsubj
11	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smelt	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 smelt	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 troubled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 troubled	cc
20	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 troubled	obj
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 troubled	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	wool		perhaps, smelt property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	trouble	past	the old man not said here	place		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer more=Result

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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