The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 21

Why, nothing but a parcel of old bones, which smelt so badly that he could not stay there a moment longer.

Who acts: old bones, man · What happens: smelt, not stay

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old bones, man), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Why	appos
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 parcel	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parcel	det
6	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bones	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parcel	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smelt	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 smelt	nsubj
12	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bones	acl:relcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 badly	advmod
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 smelt	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 stay	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stay	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stay	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 stay	advmod
19	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 smelt	advcl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stay	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stay	obl:unmarked
23	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 stay	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smelt	present	old bones					badly property	tree rules
2	not stay	could	man			there	moment	long property	vn exist-47.1 «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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