Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 6
I smelled the turf and knew for the first time how sweet that smelled.
Who acts: I, first time · What happens: smell, know · To what, where: turf
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first time), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 smelled | nsubj |
| 2 | smelled | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turf | det |
| 4 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smelled | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knew | cc |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smelled | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | obl |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 sweet | advmod |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 smelled | nsubj |
| 14 | smelled | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | past | I | the turf | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turf=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | I not said here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | smell | past | the first time | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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