The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 75

He sniffed greedily the smell of the dishes, and raised his head the better to see the dancers.

Who acts: colt, dishes · What happens: sniff, raise, see, smell · To what, where: smell, head, dancers

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, dishes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	2 sniffed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sniffed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dishes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dishes	det
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smell	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 raised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 raised	cc
11	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sniffed	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raised	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 better	det
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 raised	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 better	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dancers	det
19	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sniffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	colt	the smell of the dishes	greedily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
2	raise	past		colt's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive		the dancers		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancer=Stimulus
4	smell		the dishes			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 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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