The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 29
‘It smells just as if there were Christian man’s blood here!’
Who acts: door · What happens: smell, be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smells | nsubj |
| 3 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 blood | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 blood | case |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 were | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 blood | cop |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smells | obl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 smells | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 smells | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 smells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | door | here | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | as Christian man's blood | 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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