The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 95

He sniffed about to the right and left, saying, "I smell fresh meat."

Who acts: sheep · What happens: sniff, leave, say, smell · To what, where: right, fresh meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 sniffed	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 right	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 right	det
6	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sniffed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sniffed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 left	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 smell	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 smell	nsubj
14	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	conj
15	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meat	amod
16	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smell	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sniffed	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sniffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	sheep		the right	about property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to right=Recipient
2	leave	past	sheep not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	sheep not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	smell in a quote	present	sheep	fresh meat			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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