The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 11

The first thing they saw on entering the door was her skin lying on the floor, and then they knew that they had been deceived, and they said to each other, ‘So we were right, after all, and it was human flesh we smelt.’

Who acts: first thing, skin, nyamatsanes, we · What happens: see, enter, be, lie, know, deceive · To what, where: door, skin, floor, nyamatsanes, each, human flesh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thing, skin, nyamatsanes, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 entering	mark
7	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 skin	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entering	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 skin	cop
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skin	nmod:poss
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
13	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 skin	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 knew	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 deceived	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deceived	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 deceived	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 deceived	aux:pass
26	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knew	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 each	case
32	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 said	obl
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 each	fixed
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 right	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 right	punct
36	So	so	ADV	_	39 right	advmod
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 right	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 right	cop
39	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 said	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 all	punct
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 right	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 flesh	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 flesh	cc
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 flesh	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 flesh	cop
47	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 flesh	amod
48	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	parataxis
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 smelt	nsubj
50	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 flesh	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 flesh	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 flesh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the first thing						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	enter	gerund		the door					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination
3	is a	past		thing's skin					tree rules
4	lie	gerund	thing's skin not said here			the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
5	know	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	deceive	past · perfect · passive		nyamatsanes = nyamatsane					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	say speech: assert	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane		each				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
8	is	past	we					right property	tree rules
9	is a	past	skin	human flesh					tree rules
10	smelt	present	we	human flesh 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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