The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 147

But to-day, after many days, I have sprinkled fresh scent all over me, and it is that which you smell.

Who acts: I, scent · What happens: sprinkle, be, smell · To what, where: fresh scent

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 (I, scent), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 sprinkled	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 to	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprinkled	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 day	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sprinkled	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sprinkled	aux
12	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 scent	amod
14	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprinkled	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 me	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sprinkled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 smell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 smell	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 which	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 which	cop
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 which	mark
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 smell	nsubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 smell	nsubj
25	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sprinkled	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sprinkled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	present · perfect	I	fresh scent	day	over me	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme over i=Destination
2	is a	present	scent				tree rules
3	smell	present					vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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