The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 25
‘I declare I smell a savoury dinner.’
Who acts: I · What happens: declare, smell · To what, where: savoury dinner
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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), 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 declare | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 declare | nsubj |
| 3 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 smell | nsubj |
| 5 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 declare | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dinner | det |
| 7 | savoury | savoury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dinner | amod |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smell | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declare | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smell | present | I | a savoury dinner | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=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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