The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 75

And a fruit without much scent, or else he would be afraid that I might smell it.

Who acts: Moti, I · What happens: be, smell · To what, where: garden

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 fruit	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fruit	det
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 scent	case
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scent	amod
6	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fruit	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 afraid	cc
9	else	else	ADV	_	13 afraid	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fruit	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 smell	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 smell	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 smell	aux
17	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 smell	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fruit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Moti					afraid, else property	tree rules
2	smell	might	I	garden					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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