The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 42

As he spoke these last words, the moon came in and said he smelt mortal flesh and blood.

Who acts: son, moon · What happens: speak, come in, say, smelt · To what, where: last words, mortal flesh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, moon), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	parataxis
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smelt	nsubj
15	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flesh	amod
17	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smelt	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blood	cc
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flesh	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	son	this last words	tree rules
2	come in	past	the moon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the moon not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	smelt	past	son	mortal flesh and blood	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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