English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 69

Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday's dinner.

Who acts: you · What happens: smell, like · To what, where: scraps, little boy

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	4 smell	cc
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 smell	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 smell	nsubj
4	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scraps	det
6	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 boy	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 boy	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scraps	nmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	acl:relcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	4 smell	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 dinner	case
16	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dinner	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 yesterday	case
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	you	the scraps of that little boy				for yesterday's dinner; perhaps property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent scrap=Location for dinner=Theme
2	like	past	you	that little boy not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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