The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 9

‘I think,’ says he, when all was done, ‘I smell fresh meat still.’

Who acts: I · What happens: think, say, do, smell · To what, where: calf, 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 done	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 done	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smell	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 smell	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 smell	nsubj
16	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meat	amod
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smell	obj
19	still	still	ADV	_	16 smell	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past · passive		calf		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	smell	present	I	fresh meat	still	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 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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