The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 87

“I would smell so sharply that I should know from afar that he was coming.”

Who acts: bear · What happens: smell, know, come · To what, where: afar

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sharply	advmod
6	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	4 smell	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 know	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smell	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 afar	case
12	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 know	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 coming	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 coming	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 know	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	smell in a quote	would	bear		sharply property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
2	know in a quote	should	bear	afar		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come in a quote	past · progressive	bear			vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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