The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 24
What a smell of Christian man’s blood!’ said the Troll.
Who acts: smell, blood · What happens: say, smell · To what, where: Troll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell, blood), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 smell | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 blood | case |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smell | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 smell | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 smell | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Troll | det |
| 13 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | what smell of Christian man's blood | the Troll | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent troll=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smell | Christian man's blood | 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/24/