The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 5

Well, when he came in, he snuffed, an’ he snuffed, and says he, ‘By the life, I smell fresh meat.’

Who acts: giant, ’, I · What happens: come in, snuff, say, smell · To what, where: giant, fresh meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, ’, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 when	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 snuffed	advcl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 snuffed	nsubj
9	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snuffed	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ’	det
12	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 snuffed	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 snuffed	nsubj
14	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 snuffed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 snuffed	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smell	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 smell	punct
21	By	by	ADP	_	23 life	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 life	det
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 life	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 smell	nsubj
26	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	conj
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 meat	amod
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smell	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 snuffed	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 snuffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in	past	giant			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	snuff	past	giant			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	snuff	past	a ’			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present		giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
5	smell	present	I	fresh meat	by the life	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme by life=Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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