The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 97
"I smell fresh meat, I tell thee once more," replied the Ogre, looking crossly at his wife, "and there is something here which I do not understand."
Who acts: Ogre, I, something · What happens: smell, tell, reply, look, be, not understand · To what, where: fresh meat, thee · 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 (Ogre, I, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 smell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 smell | nsubj |
| 3 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meat | amod |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smell | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 tell | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ogre | det |
| 16 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tell | conj |
| 19 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 18 looking | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 is | cc |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 is | expl |
| 27 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 looking | conj |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 is | nsubj |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 something | advmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 understand | obj |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 understand | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 understand | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 understand | advmod |
| 34 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 something | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell in a quote | present | the Ogre = ogre | fresh meat | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the Ogre = ogre | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Ogre | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | I not said here | at Ogre's wife; crossly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | the Ogre = ogre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=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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