The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 69
‘It is only a nice fresh steak off an elephant, that I have cooked for you, which you smell.
Who acts: fear, I, you · What happens: be, cook, smell · To what, where: nice fresh steak
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, I, you), 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 steak | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 steak | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 steak | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 steak | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 steak | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steak | amod |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steak | amod |
| 8 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 elephant | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steak | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cooked | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 cooked | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 cooked | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cooked | aux |
| 16 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 steak | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 cooked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smell | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 smell | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 smell | nsubj |
| 22 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cooked | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 steak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fear | a nice fresh steak | off a elephant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cook | present · perfect | I | for you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | smell | present | you | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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