The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 184

‘What smells of singeing here?’ asked the young woman, and looking round she saw her own husband.

Who acts: woman · What happens: smell, singe, ask, look round, see · To what, where: young woman, own husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 smells	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 smells	nsubj
3	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 singeing	mark
5	singeing	singe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 asked	advcl
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 singeing	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 singeing	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 singeing	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smells	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 saw	csubj
16	round	round	ADV	_	15 looking	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smells	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 husband	amod
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell	present						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	singe	gerund				here		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past			the young woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
4	look round	gerund					round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	past	woman	woman's own husband				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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