The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 75

“I smell fresh meat, I tell thee once more,” replied the Ogre, looking crossly at his wife; “and there is something here which I do not understand.”

Who acts: Ogre, something, sheep · What happens: smell, tell, reply, look, be, not understand · To what, where: fresh meat, thee · 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 (Ogre, something, sheep), 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 smell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
3	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meat	amod
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 tell	iobj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 tell	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Ogre	det
16	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 replied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 replied	advcl
19	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	18 looking	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 wife	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looking	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 is	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	parataxis
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 is	nsubj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 something	advmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 understand	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 understand	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 understand	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 understand	advmod
34	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 something	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell in a quote	present	the Ogre = ogre	fresh meat				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the Ogre = ogre		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past	the Ogre					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund	the Ogre not said here				at ogre's wife; crossly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Theme
5	be in a quote	present	something			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not understand in a quote	present · do-support	sheep					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=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 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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