The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 145

‘You old body!’ he cried; ‘what smell is that I smell inside that is not the smell of every day?’

Who acts: You, Hark, I, that · What happens: body, cry, be, not be · To what, where: smell

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Hark, I, that), 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	_	4 body	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 body	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 body	amod
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 body	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 body	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 cried	obj
12	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 smell	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 smell	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 smell	nsubj
16	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 smell	acl:relcl
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	22 smell	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 smell	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 smell	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 smell	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 smell	det
22	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smell	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 smell	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	body		You					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Hark					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is	present	I	smell not said here			smell property	tree rules
4	not is	present	that		the smell	day		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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