The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 124

When she set it down before him he swore it smelled like swine’s flesh, but knowing where to find the finger, she immediately turned it up, which fairly convinced him of the contrary.

Who acts: woman, giant · What happens: set down, swear, smell, know, find, turn up · To what, where: advice, finger, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, giant), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 set	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swore	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swore	nsubj
9	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swore	obj
11	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 swore	xcomp
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 flesh	case
13	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flesh	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 swine	case
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smelled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knowing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 knowing	cc
18	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 swore	advcl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 find	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knowing	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 finger	det
23	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turned	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turned	nsubj
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	27 turned	advmod
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swore	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 turned	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 turned	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 convinced	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 convinced	nsubj
32	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	33 convinced	advmod
33	convinced	convince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 turned	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 convinced	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 contrary	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 contrary	det
37	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 convinced	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set down	past	woman	advice	before giant		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before he=Destination
2	swear	past	giant	advice			tree rules
3	smell	participle	giant not said here			like swine's flesh	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	gerund	giant not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	find	to-infinitive		the finger			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic
6	turn up	past	woman	advice		immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
7	convince	past		giant		of the contrary; fairly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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