The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 53

When the Sun arrived, he declared that he smelt Christian flesh, and he meant to have it for his dinner.

Who acts: Sun · What happens: arrive, declare, smelt, mean, have · To what, where: Christian flesh, furniture

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 (Sun), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 declared	nsubj
7	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 smelt	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smelt	nsubj
10	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	advcl
11	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flesh	amod
12	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smelt	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 meant	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 meant	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meant	nsubj
16	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 meant	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 dinner	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dinner	nmod:poss
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the Sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	sun			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	smelt	past	sun	Christian flesh		tree rules
4	mean	past	sun			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	sun not said here	furniture	for sun's dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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