The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 54

It smells of a Christian man’s blood here!’

Who acts: dare · What happens: smell

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 (dare), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 blood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
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	2 smells	obl
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 smells	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 smells	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 smells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	dare			here		of a Christian man's blood	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of blood=Theme

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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