The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 74
“What you smell so,” said his wife, “must be the calf which I have just now killed and flayed.”
Who acts: you, I, wife · What happens: smell, say, be, have, kill, flay · To what, where: calf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, wife), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 smell | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 smell | nsubj |
| 4 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 smell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smell | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 killed | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 calf | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 calf | punct |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 calf | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 calf | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 calf | det |
| 16 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 have | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 calf | acl:relcl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 now | advmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 have | advmod |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flayed | cc |
| 24 | flayed | flay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell in a quote | present | you | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | must | the calf | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | I | the calf | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 5 | kill in a quote | past | sheep's wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | flay in a quote | past | sheep's wife not said here | tree rules |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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