The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 12

'I smell the smell of a man.'

Who acts: I, man · What happens: smell · To what, where: smell

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	I	the smell of a man					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	smell		a man						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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