The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 26

‘I made haste enough to get it away again, but it must be that which smells so, notwithstanding.’

Who acts: I, bird · What happens: haste, get away, be, notwithstand · To what, where: enough, bird

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 (I, bird), 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	_	4 haste	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 haste	nsubj
3	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 haste	aux
4	haste	haste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 haste	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 haste	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smells	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 smells	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 smells	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 smells	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 smells	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 smells	mark
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 smells	nsubj
18	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 haste	parataxis
19	so	so	ADV	_	18 smells	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 notwithstanding	punct
21	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 smells	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 haste	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 haste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	haste	may	I	enough			tree rules
2	get away	to-infinitive	I not said here	bird	again	away property	tree rules
3	is	must	bird			smell property	tree rules
4	notwithstand	gerund	bird 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 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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