Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 112

"I can smell the Nile mud and the wet frogs," said the stork-mamma, "and I begin to feel quite hungry.

Who acts: I · What happens: smell, say, begin, feel · To what, where: Nile mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	4 smell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 smell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mud	det
6	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mud	compound
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frogs	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frogs	det
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 frogs	amod
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mud	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mamma	det
16	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mamma	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 stork	punct
18	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mamma	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mamma	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begin	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 begin	nsubj
23	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 feel	mark
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begin	xcomp
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 hungry	advmod
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feel	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell in a quote	can	I	the Nile mud and the wet frogs		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	present	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here		hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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