Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 13

But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: ‘Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!’

Who acts: Gretel, Something · What happens: think, be, taste · To what, where: smelt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gretel, Something), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	6 smelt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smelt	det
4	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meat	compound
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelt	compound
6	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smelt	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smelt	punct
10	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 wrong	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 wrong	punct
14	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 wrong	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wrong	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 wrong	cop
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tasted	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tasted	nsubj:pass
20	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tasted	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	23 tasted	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 tasted	aux:pass
23	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wrong	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 wrong	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Gretel		as the meat smelt	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	might	Something		wrong property	tree rules
3	taste	ought · passive		smelt		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Attribute

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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